121 Life in Space: An Astronomy/Astrobiology Unit For Upper Elementary and Middle School Students Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This promising practice instructional resource is a comprehensive unit that addresses fundamentals of astronomy such as the motion of the earth, sun and moon; lunar phases; the tilt of the earth and the seasons; the solar system; the relative sizes of planets; and astronomical distances. This portion of the unit begins with an article titled, "So What All Is Out There, Anyway?" The article describes the structure and components of the universe.... Projects: COR 122 Go-Go Gadget: Invent a Machine Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson, students study the concepts of force, motion, and work as they analyze simple machines. They study the simple machines in complex machines, and track the transfer of force from input (effort) to output (work).... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This best practice unit explores the vast array and functions of cells in living organisms, investigates how different types of cells interact, introduces current research, and addresses ethical concerns in the field of cell biology. Students are also introduced to various types of cells and their parts.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Health Science Projects: COR, Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice resource, students are introduced to the theory of plate tectonics and explore how the theory was developed and supported by evidence. Through class discussion, videos, and activities, students seek connections between tectonic activity and geologic features and investigate how the theory of plate tectonics evolved. (author/cb) Projects: COR 125 Sun's Impact on Earth's Temperature Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson middle school students view NASA images and movies of Venus, Earth, and Mars to deduce weather patterns and manipulate computer models to test competing hypotheses. Students analyze the weather and cloud patterns of Venus, Earth, and Mars, argue which planet has more chaotic weather patterns, collect temperature data using computer models from the Solar System Collaboratory, and evaluate different hypotheses about the dynamic weather patterns of Venus, Earth and Mars and select the one which seems most correct.... Projects: COR 126 Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource explores how a cell uses information from the DNA to produce the proteins that help determine the traits of an organism; a process called protein synthesis. Students begin by learning what DNA is, what it looks like, and where it is located in the body.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–10 Professional Commentary: This promising practice lessons asks students to collect information about different biomes by watching videos and doing a Web activity. They share their information in a carousel brainstorm activity and locate the biomes on a world map.... Projects: COR 128 DNA and Protein Synthesis in the Cell Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this best practice lesson, students explore how DNA fits into chromosomes and how chromosomes relate to the human body. They learn about DNA replication and protein synthesis and model these two processes in Web activities.... Projects: COR Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 8–10 Professional Commentary: This 3-lesson unit is a step-by-step introduction to the Calculator Based Laboratory (CBL)2 and the graphing of linear functions. By modeling different walking situations captured by the CBL motion detector, students discover and interpret important connections between actions and the slope-intercept form of a linear function.... Projects: COR 130 Tweaking a Trigonometric Function -- An Exploratory Lesson Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Mathematics Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 10–12 Professional Commentary: This lesson demonstrates the various translations of y = A sin B(x + C) + D and y = A cos B(x + C) + D based upon changes in A, B, C, and D. Graphing calculator overlay graphs make it easy for students to detect, understand, and predict the relationship between changes in parameters and translations in periodic curves.... Projects: COR |