ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Students will evaluate American immigration heritage and the important issues that surround immigration policy today. The lesson is divided into three parts: a small group activity that simulates a Commission Hearing, individual explorations on immigration policy, and a final research project dedicated to the investigation of America's heritage as an immigration nation....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Students will identify a cultural practice in popular culture to explain how advances in trade and communication have impacted the diffusion of cultures. Pre- and Post - Assessments with rubrics are provided to monitor student's achievement in this three day lesson....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Students will conduct a mock peace summit on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict assuming the role of world leaders. Students will research the character's most dearly held conditions for peace and identify where the leader would be willing to compromise or trade-off issues....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce students to the political activism of the United States in the 1960's. Students do a pre-assessment on political activism, and then are asked to create their own brochure for a political action group, regarding the issue of senior citizens and their driving of automobiles....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Students will understand the consequences of oppression by creating journal entries, reflecting on images and researching issues dealing with indigenous peoples. Students will also locate population on a map....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This lesson helps students understand the concept of civil disobedience. The resource does adapt to a variety of learning styles....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This lesson considers the question of how and why people perceive places in different ways. The stated time for the lesson is four to five hours; however, teachers could spend less time if necessary....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The major focus of this lesson is to examine the American perspective on "wilderness" preservation through the investigation of events in American history. The introductory activity asks students to react to quotations that represent various perspectives about wilderness preservation....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This lesson is an overview of the Enlightenment period and its effects regarding 18th century thought on religion, government, and economics. Students will be engaged in note taking, graph making, vocabulary definitions, working in small groups and class discussion....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Students will use an inquiry approach to uncover several perspectives on British imperialism in Africa. The students will participate in a map study of imperialistic Africa then move into an analysis of British and African perspectives through primary source documents....