11 Head, Shoulders. Knees & Toes: Crickets Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: Through observation of crickets, students are able to recognize and use proper names for human and insect body parts. Students compare and contrast parts of human and insect body parts.... 12 Grooming is a Good Thing: Flies Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: This is a promising practice because students are exposed to "understanding scientific inquiry," one of the National Science Education Standards, which is compatible with Ohio's academic content standards in science. The providers claim the primary objective is for students to demonstrate an understanding of hygiene by observing and recording insect grooming and by predicting its importance.... 13 Time-Axis Fallacy and Bayes' Theorem Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: Most students understand that the probability of an event occurring can be influenced by another event that has already occurred. However, many students cannot understand that the probability of an event occurring can actually be dependent on an event that occurred later.... 14 I'm Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Someone A Letter Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: This resource, maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides letter writing ideas based on ten historical letters that are used as a context for authentic letter writing. Through a series of activities, students read, discuss, and respond to a variety of letters written by famous and ordinary citizens, some of whom lived during... Projects: Writing 6-12 15 Born on a Mountaintop: Davy Crockett, Tall Tales, and History Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–6 Professional Commentary: This resource, maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities, uses historical documents and tall tales about Davy Crockett as the focus for a unit on American tall tales. The suggested lessons allow students to examine the characteristics of tall tales and how these tales reflect historical events.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Created and reviewed by teams of educators, this writing activity describes a lesson in which students use historical information from a museum exhibit to write a fictional story from the point of view of someone who lived in the past. Drawn from the curriculum guide, Collecting Their Thoughts: Using Museums as Resources for Student Writing, which was developed by the Smithsonian Institute, this resource encourages the use of museum artwork, exhibits, and artifacts as a basis for student writing.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Education & Training, Engineering & Science Technologies, Government & Public Administration, Health Science, Hospitality & Tourism, Human Services, Information Technology, Law & Public Safety, Manufacturing Technologies, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 17 Telling A Painting's Story Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Created and reviewed by teams of educators, this writing activity describes a lesson in which students express their unique responses to art by writing stories inspired by paintings in an art museum. The lesson begins with a visit to a museum where students conduct a thorough observation of a painting and write a list of details and a description about that painting.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies, Government & Public Administration, Human Services, Marketing Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 18 Monsters and Myths: Scripts and Sculpts Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Monsters and Myths: Scripts and Sculpts is a comprehensive interdisciplinary unit pairing English Language Arts and the fine arts. Created by classroom teachers, this unit provides opportunities to develop students' use of critical thinking skills by comparing and contrasting mythic tales, reviewing different versions of the same story, and responding to literature in a variety of... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 19 A Trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame: Writing a Persuasive Letter Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Created by a high school English teacher, this lesson plan is designed to teach high school students some of the basic research skills needed to find information using the internet. The goal of the lesson is to use the Internet to review and gather information and to analyze the techniques used to persuade internet users.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 20 Witness for the Prosecution: Creating an Online Newspaper Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This integrated language arts unit, created by a high school English teacher, includes many opportunities for reading fiction and nonfiction texts, conducting research using the internet, and producing an online newspaper. Centered around Witness For the Prosecution by Agatha Christie, this unit uses literary response and research as the context in which students produce a... Career Fields: Information Technology Projects: COR, Writing 6-12, Standards First |