ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website is produced by the Apartheid Museum of South Africa. It is an effort to explain the phenomenon of apartheid and explain the long lasting influence it has had on South African society....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This primary document, The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, is from the United Nations website. Other than a short introduction and the declaration, itself, there is no other information....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Indigenous Peoples is produced and published by The United Nations CyberSchoolbus. The site focuses on identifying indigenous peoples, and engaging learners in understanding the challenges they face in the modern world....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Just a Normal Day in the Camps is published by JewishGen: The Home of Jewish Genealogy. Authorship is not provided....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The History Place provides a detailed timeline of the historical events describing all aspects of the Holocaust. Students can assess the timeline during the years of 1933 to 1945....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource is an online exhibit of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. To best utilize this resource, teachers would need online access in the classroom or have students in a lab setting to view the site....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This site is sponsored by the Armenian National Institute. While this organization might be suspected to have a strong bias about the subject, information in the site is supported by reliable sources and the site includes links to many holocaust organizations....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource provided by the Human Rights Report is a narrative account of a campaign of extermination against the Kurds of northern Iraq. The report offers teachers an in-depth look into this political rights issue....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The "1-800-INDIA" page is part of the "wide angle" series on PBS. The site provides educational supplemental materials to accompany the documentary film....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This NPR story, published in 2005, directly aligns with the 9th grade economics indicator and be easily printed from the website. There is a link avaiable so that the story played on air can be listened to, and the clip lasts for approximately 7 1/2 minutes....