Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This content resource, maintained by Ohio University, contains a varied selection of writers and others who read both from their own and others' works. Excerpts include a breadth of material, from classic literature (Lewis Carroll, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, and Walt Whitman, for example) to readings of contemporary poetry (Robert Pinksy, Terry Andersen, et al), and... 252 Marine Virtual Explorer Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: MARVE (The Marine Virtual Explorer) is a simulation of a research dive in the Alvin submersible to a hydrothermal vent field on the East Pacific Rise. MARVE combines real oceanographic data with 3-D computer modeling to represent a real place on the earth (though it is not an exact representation).... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–3 Professional Commentary: Word Maker provides a simple, engaging way for students to generate dozens of different words by first choosing an ending (for example -an, -ed, -at, -op) and then adding a beginning letter or blend. When a correct word is created, the word is stored in a Word Bank where students can read and review their words.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This content resource provides a comprehensive look at genetics from defining what a gene is to explaining why fireflies light up. Students and teachers can take an animated tour of genetics basics, build a DNA molecule, transcribe and translate a gene, and discover how proteins function.... Career Fields: Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This content resource features an applet that illustrates the phases of the moon. The user can view the earth-sun-moon system, the moon by itself, or both.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Physics 2000 is an interactive journey through modern physics! Students can explore how Einstein's revolution in physics has led to X-rays, microwave ovens, lasers, and many other modern devices; see how some surprising 20th Century physics experiments show us that not everything is as it seems; and learn basic principles of waves, quantum mechanics, polarization, and the periodic table. Physics 2000 relies heavily on the use of interactive "applets." These are different from the typical animations seen on the Internet because users can actually interact with them.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: Science Update includes over 150 newsworthy science tidbits. Each entry includes a brief Introduction that sets the stage, a Real Audio segment in the style of a breaking news radio newscast, a Transcript of the audio segment, a Making Sense of the Research text section that provides indepth information followed by a set of questions, and... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science, Information Technology Projects: Standards First 258 Description and Lesson Plan for the Base 10 Blocks Program Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 1–2 Professional Commentary: This website provides an applet and complete instructions for using base ten blocks to teach the four operations of arithmetic from a place value perspective. The advantage of using the applet over real base ten blocks is that the applet blocks can be glued into larger units to illustrate addition and broken into their component units to illustrate subtraction.... 259 GLOBE 2003 Atmosphere Chapter Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: This resource provides the user with a number of different lessons on the atmosphere, including lessons on clouds, sundials, calculating relative air mass, building a thermometer, and making a contour map. (cb) 260 Pre-University Chemistry Course Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource is based on an excerpt from the book Chemistry, Matter and the Universe by Richard E. Dickerson and Irving Geis.... |