Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This PowerPoint presentation introduces students to the rules of comma usage, including placement in compound sentences, after introductory elements, with dependent phrases and clauses, around non-essential elements, in a series, and with adjectives. This presentation also covers methods for avoiding the comma splice.... Projects: Writing 6-12 392 Prioritizing Your Concerns for Effective Business Writing: Higher Order Concerns: Is Your Document Sound? Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource recommends that during the revision of business and professional documents, it is important to prioritize concerns and thereby determine what to look for and work on. This handout suggests beginning with the Higher Order Concerns, the HOCs, which are aspects of the writing most responsible for the content of the document.... Career Fields: General Career Skills Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First 393 Prioritizing Your Concerns for Effective Business Writing: Later Order Concerns: Does Your Document Look Professional? Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource recommends that during the revision of business and professional documents, it is important to prioritize concerns and thereby determine what to look for and work on. This handout suggests saving the Later Order Concerns, the LOCs, for the last draft, when it is time to look closely at specific points of grammar and mechanics.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource fully explains the use and purpose of a white paper. In addition, the resource presents and explains each section of the white paper.... Projects: Writing 6-12 Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource is designed to improve the quality of email in the workplace and to provide the subsequent information on how to craft appropriate email messages, communicate with colleagues and classmates, and participate in electronic mailing lists. Although instant and text messaging and social networking sites are beginning to supplant email for some groups' primary means of Internet communication, effective and appropriate email etiquette is still important.... Projects: Writing 6-12 396 Developing a Thesis Statement Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This content resource is a helpful one-page resource on tips for developing and revising thesis statements. Hosted by The Writing Center at The University of Wisconsin at Madison, the resource encourages students to consider their main point in writing by providing them with a menu of options for key details in thesis statements: (1) "Identify a... Projects: Writing 6-12 397 To Fret or Not To Fret Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this two-lesson unit, students explore geometric sequences and their relationship to exponential functions by considering the placement of frets on stringed instruments. ORC reviewers approved the unit as a reference site, but not as an instructional unit, because of the difficulty in collecting the required equipment.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students begin an exploration of cryptology by first learning about two simple coding methods, the Caesar substitution cipher and the Vigenere polyalphabetic cipher. Students then use matrices and their inverses to create more sophisticated codes.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: Students analyze slope as a rate of change. Students compare, contrast, and make conjectures relative to distance-time graphs for three bicyclists pedaling to the top of a mountain. ORC reviewers considered the activity too thin to constitute a stand-alone lesson but wanted to recommend it as a content resource for inclusion in discussions of slope because of the difficulty that many students have in interpreting graphs. An activity sheet, discussion questions, a lesson extension, suggestions for assessment, links to informational websites, and prompts for teacher reflection are included.... 400 Exploring the Isometric Drawing Tool Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: The purpose of this site is to familiarize students with an applet that allows them to construct, color, move, rotate, and view from different perspectives a variety of solids built from blocks. This tool can be used in the succeeding lessons in the unit.... |