561 Frosty the Snowman Meets His Demise: An Analogy to Carbon Dating Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this promising practice lesson is to develop the idea that carbon dating is based on gathering evidence in the present and extrapolating it to the past. Students are asked to consider the case of when Frosty the Snowman met his demise (began to melt).... 562 Garbage 1: The Roots of Trash Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to help students identify the various natural resources used to produce common items and to understand how people use science and technology to produce those items. The lesson is meant to help students develop an understanding of what many of the common items we use every day are made of... 563 Hurricanes 2: Tracking Hurricanes Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this best practice lesson is to examine the role of technology in identifying and tracking hurricanes. Students explore how technology and science are used today to identify, measure, and track powerful tropical storms to better warn and secure people from their often-devastating impact.... Projects: COR 564 Introduction to Natural Selection Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this best practice lesson is to develop an understanding of natural selection, specifically, how it unfolds from generation to generation. The lesson is an introduction to natural selection and is well suited for a student who is just beginning his or her discovery of evolution.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First 565 Inventions 1: Edison and the Light Bulb Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this promisng practice lesson is to introduce students to the realm and power of inventions, and help them to better recognize their impact on people and society. This lesson is the first of a two-part series on technology and inventions.... 566 Inventions 2: The Impact Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Inventions 2: The Impact, a promising practice lesson, focuses on the process of inventing. Students are introduced to the short- and long-term issues inventors have to consider before developing an invention.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to demonstrate that isotopes of an element have different masses; that isotopes are atoms of the same element that have different numbers of neutrons; and that atomic mass is the weighted average of the naturally occurring isotopes of an element. This best practice lesson helps students build their understanding of... 568 Light 2: The Lighter Side of Color Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this promising practice lesson is to explore light and color, including how colors are mixed to produce new colors, how light is filtered, and how light is reflected off of surfaces. The lesson focuses on the idea that we can see objects because they either emit or reflect light.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students will learn how telescopes work, will build a model of their own, and will consider how real telescopes can be used to ask-and help answer-questions about the universe. This is an excellent lesson for getting students to understand the relationship of technology and science.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics, Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: By flipping coins, pulling marbles out of a bag, and playing with an online applet, students develop a basic understanding of probabilities, how they are determined, and how the outcome of an experiment can be affected by the number of times it is conducted. This lesson supports the development of scientific and mathematical processes such as... Projects: COR |