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Stella's Stunners

Resource Type: Content Resource
Discipline: Mathematics
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–12
ORC Record #13990

The Stella's Stunners website features a collection of challenging and entertaining mathematical problems to intrigue students in grades 6 - 12. The Stella problems are ideal for promoting inquiry, problem solving, and classroom discussion of key mathematical ideas....

Artifacts 1: What Can We Learn From Artifacts?

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Promising Practice
Discipline: Science
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5
ORC Record #517

Using this resource, students determine what artifacts are, how they are discovered, and what information can be learned from them. Students may know very general things about people: what they need to live and that they live in families and communities....

Reader Response in Hypertext: Making Personal Connections to Literature

Resource Type: Instructional Resource -- Best Practice
Discipline: English Language Arts
Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12
ORC Record #4415

In this lesson, students choose four quotations to inspire their personal responses to a novel that they have read. Students write a narrative of place, complete a character sketch, create an extended metaphor poem and write a persuasive essay....