Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students learn the difference between sensorineural and conductive hearing loss, graph the data from a patient's hearing test, and interpret the data to determine the kind of hearing loss the patient is experiencing. This kind of problem provides a good example of a real application of graph interpretation, a skill that research shows is difficult for... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 112 PAL: Perspectives in American Literature Research and Reference Guide Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: With over 330 author pages, this website provides reference information about American writers. Organized around seven major American literary movements (covering over three hundred years of writing dating back to 1700), each author entry includes a detailed bibliography, biography, and links to related sites.... Career Fields: Information Technology, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 113 Physlets: Web-Based Interactive Physics Problems Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Physlets is a set of applets that accompany the book Physlets: Teaching Physics with Interactive Curricular Material. The applets could be used by physical science and physics students to explore various phenomena or by an instructor as a demonstration.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Following independent reading, students give one-minute raves about books they've completed. Students celebrate successful milestones in their literacy explorations by sharing books and ideas with other students, who, in turn, are encouraged in their own explorations.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 7–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: The Mountain Problem was one of the problems considered during the summer 2002 Ohio Mathematics Academy Program sponsored by the Ohio Department of Education for mathematics teachers, grades 7-10. The Mountain Problem has the engaging property that it is simple enough to be understood and discussed by middle grades students, yet challenging enough to intrigue college students.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–12 Professional Commentary: NASA Quest is a rich resource for educators, kids and space enthusiasts who are interested in meeting and learning about NASA people and the national space program. NASA Quest allows the public to share the excitement of NASA's authentic scientific and engineering pursuits like flying in the Shuttle and the International Space Station, exploring distant planets with amazing spacecraft, and building the aircraft of the future.... 117 Developing Geometry Concepts Using Computer Programming Environments: Can You Get the Turtle to the Pond? Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: Students engage in creative problem solving while estimating length and angle measure. Students enter a sequence of LOGO commands to move a turtle to a pond.... 118 Investigating the Concept of Triangle and the Properties of Polygons: Making Triangles Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this first of two related activities, students use a geoboard applet to create and identify triangles, describe their properties, and thereby help develop spatial sense. The site suggests having students check congruence of triangles, but the applet provided does not facilitate this operation.... 119 Investigating the Concept of Triangle and Properties of Polygons: Creating Polygons Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–2 Professional Commentary: In this second of two related activities, students use a geoboard applet to create and identify all kinds of polygons, describe their properties, and continue developing spatial sense. The site suggests having students check congruence of polygons, but the applet provided does not facilitate this operation.... 120 Developing Geometry Understandings and Spatial Skills through Puzzlelike Problems with Tangrams: Tangram Puzzles Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–5 Professional Commentary: This NCTM E-Example features a two-part tangram example demonstrating how to address content in the geometry standard by problem solving with hands-on and virtual manipulatives. In the lower grades, describing figures and visualizing what they look like when they are transformed through rotations or flips or are put together or taken apart in different ways are important... |