21 Writing a Short Story Based on Kindred Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Created by a high school English teacher, this language arts project integrates literature study, creative writing, and technology. Based on Kindred, a story about slavery in the United States written by Octavia Butler, the unit uses literature to examine the impact of historical events and social norms on personal lives.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Education & Training, Health Science, Human Services, General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 22 Go West: Imagining the Oregon Trail Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities, this interdisciplinary unit, centered around the Oregon Trail, lets students synthesize historical data through creative writing. The activities allow students to compare imagined travel experiences of their own with the actual experiences of 19th-century pioneers.... 23 Bottles and Divers: Rates of Change Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson has an introductory activity that uses bottles of various shapes to help students understand rate of change. The lesson then develops the concept of the average rate of change between two points on a curve.... Projects: COR 24 Mark Twain and American Humor Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This resource, maintained by the National Endowment for the Humanities, provides a three-part lesson in which students examine the structure and characterization of selected short stories and consider the significance of humor through a study of Mark Twain's "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County." Through these lessons, students can develop critical thinking and literary analysis... 25 Building Boxes: Polynomials and Rational Functions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: Students explore relationships between x-intercepts, factors, and roots of polynomial functions using the graphing calculator. Students also investigate rational functions, identifying the roots and the asymptotes as well as holes (discontinuities) in the graphs.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students solve two linear programming problems. The first one, Researching Research Papers, involves three variables; the second, The Busing Problem, involves four variables.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Marketing, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 27 Getting Out Of Line: Function Patterns Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson emphasizes patterns, discovery, and vocabulary by focusing on the basic connections between graphs, tables, and symbolic representations for lines, parabolas, inverse models, and exponential functions. Students investigate various patterns and models using the graphing calculator.... Projects: COR 28 Meadows or Malls?: Using Matrices to Solve Systems Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: Students use matrices and technology to solve the Meadows or Malls problem, a linear programming problem with six variables. Students who have not done linear programming problems before are advised to begin with The Busing Problem before attempting Meadows or Malls.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This lesson is a data analysis lab in which students gather mass and volume data for two mystery liquids--oil and water--and then use the data to explore linear functions. Connections to science are an important part of this algebra lesson, which deals with density.... 30 Pennies, Pressure, Temperature, and Light: Inverse Functions Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: The major goal of this lesson is to collect data from a variety of experiments, determine what type of model best fits the data, and explain why. Students explore a variety of relationships using pennies, pressure, temperature, light, and pendulums to determine the algebraic equation that best represents the pattern modeled by the variables involved in... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: COR, Standards First |