Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students determine the frequency of letters that occur in the names of all 50 states and represent these frequencies using a bar graph, stem-and-leaf plot, and box-and-whiskers plot. Downloadable activity sheets, discussion questions, lesson extensions, and suggestions for assessment are included.... Career Fields: Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: A game based on the Apache game of "Throwing Sticks" is the foundation for this lesson on probability. Younger students play the game and record results in a sticky note bar graph.... 863 Algebraic Transformations Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students use rotations and reflections of a rectangle and other geometric shapes to study the algebraic properties of commutativity, associativity, identity, and inverse. NCTM labels this two-lesson unit for middle grades (6-8), but the ideas embodied in it (symmetry groups) are often studied in graduate level abstract algebra courses.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication Projects: Standards First 864 Emily Dickinson & Poetic Imagination: "Leap, plashless" Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students read and explore the poetry of Emily Dickinson to build their understanding of key literary elements. Students examine the use of imagery, sound, and metaphor and discover how to listen for meter in songs and poems.... 865 ODE Assessment Item, Grade 3: Red Woolen Blanket: Julia comes home from the hospital Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 3 Professional Commentary: This question asks students to answer a literal question. Literal questions are easily and directly answered in the selection.... 866 Buttons, Buttons, Everywhere! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: Students use attributes such as size, shape, and color to describe, compare, and classify buttons. Related storybooks, guiding questions, lesson extensions, and suggestions for assessment are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 1 Professional Commentary: Students use models of coins to purchase one or two items from a classroom store. Students use words and numbers to identify and describe the value of the coins.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students select and use appropriate nonstandard units to measure and compare lengths and weights of real-life objects. Students discover the relationship between the size of the unit and the number of units needed in a measurement.... 869 To Be (Half) or Not To Be (Half) Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: Students demonstrate various ways to represent and verify a set of blocks separated into two, three, or four equal parts. Guiding questions, summary questions, assessment tasks, and extensions of the lesson are included.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 2–3 Professional Commentary: Students determine and compare weights and volume of popped and unpopped corn to make predictions and solve problems. Students use concrete models that approximate standard units to measure the weight/mass and capacity/volume of unpopped corn and of the corn when popped.... |