911 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Changing pH Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson enables students to explore acids and bases in the natural environment. Students investigate the question, "How acidic or basic are leaves?" Students use pH probes to gather data and then use spreadsheets to organize, represent, and analyze the data.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Education & Training, Health Science Projects: COR, Standards First 912 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Escaping Oxygen Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students use a dissolved oxygen (DO) probe to investigate how different temperatures of water affect the amount of dissolved oxygen present in water. Using a thermometer will afford them the opportunity to watch the dissolved oxygen change as the temperature increases.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies, Health Science, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 913 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Monitoring an Aquarium Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students use a pH probe and a light probe to investigate the relationship between diurnal variation in light and the production of carbon dioxide in aquatic plants. Students use the probes to collect data to answer the question, "What changes during a day in my aquarium?" They investigate how the day/night cycle effects the amount of carbon dioxide in an aquarium with plants and fish.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 914 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Monitoring a Pond Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students investigate the process of photosynthesis in an aquatic ecosystem. Students conduct an investigation to answer the question.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Engineering & Science Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: COR, Standards First 915 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Calibrating Thermometers Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grade 5 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students calibrate and scale a thermometer. Students conduct an investigation to answer the question, "How can I make sure my thermometer is providing a true reading?" A standard thermometer and a temperature probe are used to collect data throughout the investigation.... Projects: COR 916 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Hot and Cold Cups Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson students use a temperature probe to investigate how different types of containers affect the warming and cooling of water. Students conduct an investigation to answer the question.... Projects: COR 917 Mobile Inquiry Technology: Pulse Rate Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: This inquiry-based, promising practice lesson focuses on finding one's pulse rate under given conditions. Students are actively engaged throughout this lesson and are required to communicate their findings with classmates.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First 918 How does an Airplane Fly? Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students conduct an extended experiment in which they change and test different flight conditions. By working in pairs or small groups, they will better understand how research teams of engineers and scientists must work together cooperatively to complete large projects.... Career Fields: Engineering & Science Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 919 The Lemon Battery Challenge Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson challenges students to determine how many lemon batteries would be required to power an electric car. The lesson begins with a discussion of how a battery works and progresses through making a lemon battery.... 920 Truth Be Told: Writing Memoirs Based on a Shared Event Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–12 Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students write a short memoir about a recent, significant shared event that affected their school or community. They then compare their recollections and present evidence that supports their version of the events. As a springboard, students read and discuss an article from The New York Times about a new translation of Elie Wiesel's Night and how some of the changes made have raised questions about its accuracy. This lesson brings to light the difficulties in writing memoirs and the controversies that can surround them.... |