1531 Green Thumb: Grow Beans from the Ground Up Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Prekindergarten Professional Commentary: In this Pre-K activity children grow bean plants and explore the basic needs of plants. Related children's literature includes Clarissa is Cracked from the Arthur series and One Bean by Anne Rockwell.... 1532 Use Your Senses: Use Senses to Play a Guessing Game Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: After listening to Arthur's Mystery Envelope, students try to guess what unseen objects are by using their senses of touch, hearing, and smell. (ts) 1533 Water Experiment: Investigate Water Displacement Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Prekindergarten Professional Commentary: This exploration encourages children to devise a plan for helping the crow in Aesop's The Crow and the Pitcher raise the water level in the pitcher. As it is written the teacher introduces the fable and then demonstrates the trouble the crow is having reaching the water.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this 9-lesson unit, students explore the four models of addition (counting, sets, number line, and balanced equations) using dominoes. They also learn about the order (commutative) property for addition, the inverse relationship between addition and subtraction, and the result of adding 0 (additive identity).... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this six-lesson unit, students explore the relationship between pennies, nickels, dimes, and quarters. They count sets of mixed coins, write story problems that involve money, and use coins to make patterns.... 1536 A Journal for Corduroy: Responding to Literature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: The focus of this lesson is literary response. Students listen to several stories featuring the character Corduroy and respond orally and in writing.... 1537 Active Reading Using The Enormous Watermelon Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: After reading a variety of nursery rhymes, through shared reading experiences, students work collaboratively to identify the main characters and to practice reading high frequency words. Then, during a shared reading of the big book The Enormous Watermelon, they locate the nursery rhyme characters within the story.... 1538 From Stop Signs to the Golden Arches: Environmental Print Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: The first big step toward reading is helping young children see themselves as readers. This lesson uses environmental print from the students' surrounding community as part of classroom instruction.... 1539 Listen, Look and Learn: An Information-Gathering Process Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, teachers use a variety of resources to model an information-gathering process for primary learners. Students listen to stories, read written texts, and examine photos and diagrams to answer key questions related to a topic of study.... 1540 Name Talk: Exploring Letter-Sound Knowledge in the Primary Classroom Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: Letter-sound knowledge often begins with children making personal connections to their own names. This lesson provides an informal way for students to demonstrate their knowledge of letter and sounds in the context of "name talk." Working with name cards written by themselves or an adult, students make observations about their names and the names of their... |