121 Write All About It: Newspapers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This resource offers strategies for teaching the parts and functions of a newspaper. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, integrates many reading and writing tasks based on parts of a newspaper.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 122 Writing for Publication Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This resource offers strategies for teaching creative writing. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to write and publish an original story.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This resource has four main content sections: Leonardo's futuristic inventions introduces the elements of machines, lets students explore how these elements can work together to perform new functions, and gives students a chance to analyze Leonardo's inventions and design their own; Leonardo's way of looking at the world explores Renaissance techniques for representing the 3D world on 2D surfaces; a brief biography of Leonardo da Vinci with images; and Leonardo's curious habit of writing in reverse. This web site has four pages with interesting interactive elements, lesson plans for hands-on classroom activities to extend learning, and opportunities for students to communicate their ideas electronically.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Information Technology Projects: COR, Standards First 124 Raphanus sativus, Germination, and Inquiry: A Learning Cycle Approach for Novice Experimenters Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This article takes a "tried and true" activity, seed germination, and makes it better. The article describes a learning cycle activity sequence that enables fourth-grade children to improve their inquiry ability and develop their understanding of factors influencing seed germination.... 125 It's a Perfect Fit - Part 1 - Getting Into Shapes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Using square tiles, students are first challenged to duplicate rectangles of various dimensions. Students then identify and describe two-dimensional shapes in the classroom.... 126 Money Counts: Number Sense/Computation Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Through a collection of hands-on activities, students gain experience in counting, exchanging, and comparing money. Students begin the lesson by finding all of the possible combinations of coins that can be used to equal a specified amount of money.... 127 Sand Babies: Measurement Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson provides students with many motivating opportunities to explore and investigate measurement using standard and non-standard units. They follow a careful procedure to round their birth weight to the nearest pound and then construct a bar graph composed of sticky notes to display the birth weights of the entire class.... 128 Build an animal: Lessonplanspage.com Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Through the use of this resource, students design and build an animal that would be well suited for a given habitat. This site focuses on a variety of concepts, including biological evolution, interdependence of organisms and behavior of organisms.... 129 Structures Around the World: Activities for the Elementary Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This resource contains eight of the nearly three dozen activities found in the publication, "The Exploratorium's Guide to Scale and Structure" written by Barry Kluger-Bell and the School in the Exploratorium. Students are actively involved in building and analyzing structures.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 130 Fooling With Words: Teaching Tools for Poetry Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: Fooling With Words is an informative web site with a focus on contemporary American poets. Many of these poets are frequently published in high school anthologies.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Human Services Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First |