Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This content resource is a set of nine activities for exploring transverse and longitudinal waves. The activities described here do not represent a complete lesson.... 292 Climate Analysis Using Planktonic Foraminifera Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This content resource provides opportunities for investigations under two different yet related topics. The first topic is how organisms respond to environmental changes.... 293 Determining Age of Rocks and Fossils Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This activity will help students to have a better understanding of the basic principles used to determine the age of rocks and fossils. This activity consists of several parts.... 294 Fun with Fractions: Class Attributes Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: As described, this lesson will work best with a class of exactly 24 students. Thus, most teachers will want to use this lesson as the germ of a good idea and personalize it to suit their own class.... 295 How Many More Fish?: Looking Back and Moving Forward Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This site describes five different activities for practicing subtraction combinations using the comparison model for subtraction. The URL for the online spinner used in one of the activities has been changed.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This USGS site provides a comprehensive look at the water cycle. The information is conveniently divided into the following topics: Storage in ice and snow, Precipitation, Snowmelt runoff to streams, Infiltration, Ground-water discharge, Ground-water storage, Water storage in oceans, Evaporation, Condensation, Water storage in the atmosphere, Transpiration, Surface runoff, Streamflow, Springs, and Freshwater storage.... 297 SEPUP'S Car Comparison Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This content resource challenges students to build 2 cars and run them on a test track. Key features students consider when building the cars include the car's fuel efficiency, safety, and environmental impact.... Career Fields: Transportation Systems, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This content resource challenges students to assemble disarticulated bones into a complete skeleton. The activity opens with a fully assembled skeleton that students are invited to study.... Career Fields: Health Science, Law & Public Safety, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First 299 Exponents: Algebraic Powers Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: This site gives a concise review of all the rules for exponents in simplifying and evaluating algebraic expressions. Numerous worked examples illustrating all the trickiest points are included.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This applet helps students discover the three sets of criteria (SSS, ASA, SAS) that determine congruent triangles by seeing for themselves that there is at most one triangle they can construct with specified combinations of angles and sides. In the ambiguous case (SSA) they can construct two different triangles.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First |