COR Lessons

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This best practice instructional resource includes a series of lessons that allow elementary students to investigate weather phenomena both locally and in other places around the world. Students engage in both hands-on activities and real-time data investigations using information available on the Internet....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This best practice lesson revolves around the MESSENGER spacecraft mission to Mercury. The focus of the lesson is technology, not only how it allows humans to collect scientific data and information on a faraway terrestrial planet, but also the constraints involved in designing the spacecraft to carry this technology....

Discipline: Mathematics, Science

Professional Commentary: By flipping coins, pulling marbles out of a bag, and playing with an online applet, students develop a basic understanding of probabilities, how they are determined, and how the outcome of an experiment can be affected by the number of times it is conducted. This lesson supports the development of scientific and mathematical processes such as data collection, representation, and analysis....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson students test their visual and auditory abilities (both separately and together) as they play an online game and record their reaction times. This lesson could be used to model data collection, representation, and analysis....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The objective of this content resource is to explore the role of technology in farming. This is an open-ended activity about agriculture and farming technology....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This set of online lessons has been designed for delivery in a distance learning environment. They are intended for use by highly motivated “self-learners” who may be studying independently....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Antibiotic resistance is a growing problem with worldwide effects. This project was created to help students understand antibiotic resistance- both the science behind it and how human use of antibiotics can affect resistance development....

Projects: COR, Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson allows students to see how sophisticated technology can be used to learn about the sun. In this activity, students apply the use of two types of solar imaging to determine a correlation between sunspots and active regions on the sun....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Air Pollution: What's the Solution? is an educational project for students, grades 6 - 12, that uses online, real-time data to guide student discovery of the science behind causes and effects of ground level ozone. Through this project, students will focus on ground level ozone, discovering what ground level ozone is, what factors contribute to its formation, and the effects of breathing ozone on health....

Projects: COR, Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The purpose of this promising practice lesson is to explore the molecular structure of matter and how it can affect the physical characteristics of a specific material. Students use Internet resources to compare the structure of diamonds and graphite....

Projects: COR, Standards First