ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: In this investigation, students will compare the careers of two women, a century apart, involved in medical research. They will also learn about xenotransplanation, the use of animal organs and tissues for transplant into human patients, which can be related to other ideas pertaining to scientific enterprise and the ethical considerations of using human subjects in...

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice resource details a lesson to demonstrate that simple models can be used to represent real world objects that are not easily brought into a classroom. The lesson is designed to allow K-2 students to create a wave model using two different types of simple models....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students are introduced to integer programming through practical problems in which they formulate decisions using 0-1 variables, by entering these integer variables into a decision matrix in a spreadsheet and manipulating the spreadsheet to evaluate alternative decision combinations. Activity sheets guide students step by step through the basic process....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a technique called paper chromatography to separate the ink colors in water soluble markers. The core activity of the lesson will help children gain experience in conducting simple investigations of their own while working in small groups....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Part of Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, this resource features lessons and activities for use in writing workshop. This poetry writing project is designed to teach students strategies for creating original poetry....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Part of Scholastic's Writing with Writers series, this resource features lessons and activities for use in writing workshop. This poetry writing project is designed to teach students strategies for creating original poetry....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: From personal computers to the latest electronic gadgetry for the kitchen, garage, or home entertainment center, Americans seem to have fallen in love with just about anything that will make our high-tech lifestyles more comfortable, convenient, and enjoyable. This lesson asks students to complete a short survey to establish their beliefs about technology then to compare...

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This seven-lesson unit features activities in various modalities in which students work with progressively larger sets containing 10-20 elements. They count the elements, write numerals, and make sets with more or fewer elements....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: This lesson focuses on interpreting and creating graphs that are functions of time. The first two activity sheets focus on graphs of time vs speed....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The objective of this promising practice lesson is to learn about some of the elementary particles in the Standard Model by building a proton and neutron from quarks. The building blocks of matter that have been experimentally verified are the quarks and leptons described by the Standard Model....