71 Poetry 180: A Poem A Day for American High Schools Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: Created by Billy Collins, former poet laureate of the United States, Poetry 180 is designed to make poetry an active part of students' daily experiences in American high schools. This resource provides a bank of contemporary poems, one for each day of the academic year, that may be downloaded, printed, and shared in school settings.... 72 Women in Astronomy: An Introductory Resource Guide Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: This resource guide is designed to help astronomy instructors, students, historians, and scholars delving into the contributions of women to our culture. It is a directory of written and web-based sources on the contributions of women to the science of astronomy, both in the past and today.... Career Fields: Arts & Communication, Health Science Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Atoms are the basis of chemistry and the basis for everything in the universe. Matter is composed of atoms.... Career Fields: Health Science, Manufacturing Technologies, General Career Skills Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5, 11–12 Professional Commentary: The fundamental properties of magnets and magnetism are introduced in this resource. The information does not specifically address the relationship between electricity and magnetism, but it lays the needed foundation.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First 75 El Nino: Online Meteorological Guide Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This module introduces El Nino, conditions responsible for its occurrence, plus the impact it has on the rest of the world. Periodically, the flourishing fish populations commonly found off the west coast of Peru in South America are replaced by the sight of dead fish littering the water and beaches.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Hospitality & Tourism Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–12 Professional Commentary: This handbook was created by the Lemelson-MIT Prize Program to address the independent inventor's and aspiring entrepreneur's most frequently asked questions. In 1994, the nation's most prolific living inventor, Jerome H.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Jumpy Doll construction is a culminating activity for a unit on the muscular system. Students are challenged to design and construct a jointed figure that moves in a motion something like jumping jacks when a string is pulled.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–Postsecondary Professional Commentary: This site provides basic information about the impact of electromagnetic wave pollution on observatories used for astronomy. The article discusses both visible light and radio wave pollution.... Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5, 11–12 Professional Commentary: This Exploratorium Science Center site provides links to 12 activities and explanations about magnetism and magnetic materials. All activities are simple enough to do at home or in a classroom or activity center.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies, Engineering & Science Technologies, Manufacturing Technologies, Transportation Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Content Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12 Professional Commentary: The topic of this content resource is stereoisomers. The site includes activities for exploring mirror images, activities for discovering that different structures of stereoismers can have different smells, and the effect stereoismers have on some drugs.... |