661 Plants and Animals: Partners in Pollination: Lesson Plan 3 Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: The objectives of this promising practice lesson are to describe the complementary relationships between pollinators and the plants they pollinate, and to identify adaptations that flowers have developed to "encourage" pollination. Students examine a picture of a trumpet flower while the teacher describes the habits of a honey bee and a hummingbird.... 662 Surface Area and Volume Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students use an applet to see how the volume and surface area of a rectangular prism and a triangular prism vary as their dimensions take on integer values from 1 to 14. An activity sheet with probing questions is included.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies Projects: Standards First 663 Matrices: A Secret Weapon Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson on cryptology from the National Security Agency, "America's Codemakers and Codebreakers," is accessible to a wide range of students. The 34-page lesson material includes a discussion of shift transformations and letter frequencies, techniques of code analysis that middle school students can easily understand and enjoy.... Career Fields: Information Technology, Law & Public Safety Projects: Standards First 664 The Beat of Your Heart: What's the Beat? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students use the average adult's number of heartbeats per minute to predict how many times the heart beats during various lengths of time. Many of the problems can be worked in more than one way.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 665 The Beat of Your Heart: Heartifacts Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students apply several pieces of given information about the heart to answer six questions. Students also create and solve an original problem using the listed "fast facts." An activity sheet, answers, and extensions are included.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this introductory lesson on combinations, students color all possible clown faces meeting specified criteria. An activity sheet, solutions, and problem extensions are included.... 667 Combinations: Shorts and Shirts Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–4 Professional Commentary: In this first of two lessons on combinations, students color all possible outfits meeting specified criteria. An activity sheet, solutions, and problem extensions are included.... 668 Combinations: Ice-Cream Cones Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–9 Professional Commentary: In this last of two lessons on combinations, students find all of the different double dip ice cream cones that can be made from eight flavors of ice cream. An activity sheet, solutions, and problem extensions are included.... 669 The Product Game: Classifying Numbers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 4–6 Professional Commentary: This lesson is part of The Product Game but can be taught independently, and it uses Venn diagrams in a creative way. In this lesson, students construct Venn diagrams to show the relationships between the factors or products of two or more numbers.... 670 Representing Data: Whale Weight Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this lesson students examine the relationship between the length and weight of a whale. For this real-world application of mathematics, students must perform simple unit conversions and use proportional reasoning to complete a table of the lengths and weights of whales and determine if the results can be generalized. An activity sheet is included.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |