Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Prekindergarten Professional Commentary: In this Pre-K activity children name things or animals that fly, discuss how they move, and categorize them into groups such as size, speed, living being or machine. The activity is related to Double Tibble Trouble from the Arthur series.... 2 Lights, Camera, Reaction! Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: This best practice unit teaches the basics of chemical reactions, and then challenges students to produce unique multimedia demonstrations that will be used in an educational instructional video. Students are also assigned one of five basic chemical changes (synthesis, decomposition, single displacement, double displacement, or combustion) to investigate further and are then asked to prepare a demonstration or experiment on their topic.... 3 Water 3: Melting and Freezing Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–4 Professional Commentary: This resource allows students to explore what happens to the amount of different substances as they change from a solid to a liquid or a liquid to solid. Students investigate how melting and freezing impact the amount of three separate everyday items; water, chocolate, and margarine.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students explore the effect of heating and cooling on the dispersal of food coloring in water. The primary purpose of this activity is to allow students to observe that hotter conditions can speed up changes in materials.... 5 Ready, Set, Let's Dough! It's a Matter of System Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: This lesson allows students to discover that everyday substances are composed of parts that make a unique whole. Students look at a complex system when they create their own play dough by taking several parts and creating a whole.... 6 The Electrical Resistivity Of Materials Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students compare the flow of electricity through dry sand, soil, and/or gravel, and sand, soil, and/or gravel saturated with various solutions. The activity could be used to introduce or reinforce the inverse relationship between conductivity and resistance.... Career Fields: Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades PreK–Kindergarten Professional Commentary: Students explore magnetism while "fishing" for letters. This activity is not a complete lesson, but could be used as an introductory activity to a lesson or unit on magnetism.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Prekindergarten Professional Commentary: Children explore the properties of water through a variety of activities. This lesson is associated with PBS's Jay Jay the Jet Plane series.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–10 Professional Commentary: Students explore the insulating properties of different fabrics under different conditions within the context of mountain climbing. This site has many features that will increase student interest.... Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: Students explore Newton's 3rd law of motion by throwing a basketball while on roller skates. Consider strengthening the lesson by asking students guiding questions throughout.... |