ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students practice basic subtraction combinations using a hundred board online or on paper to identify different pairs of numbers whose sums or differences are the same. Students also play a game of concentration using basic subtraction combinations....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students listen to the story, It Looked Like Spilt Milk, and create irregular regions with closed loops of yarn. They develop a sense of area by counting the number of cotton balls it takes to fill various regions....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students take repeated hops of the same length along a number line and find the end result. They associate "4 hops of 5 and you land on 20" with the number sentence 4 x 5 = 20....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students explore the balance beam model of multiplication and write the corresponding number sentences. They also play The Product Game using an online applet....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students learn about growing patterns by first replicating some growing dot patterns and then creating their own. They go to the Math Forum website to learn about a famous growing pattern, Pascal's triangle....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this instructional resource, students take on the role of an editor as they review informational texts intended for publication. After collecting a variety of published materials, including newspapers, magazines, books, copies of public lectures, scientific journals, and documents downloaded from the Internet, student examine ways in which attribution is given to individuals for ideas used in the published pieces....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson integrates technical writing with revising and editing strategies. Students assume the role of mechanical drafters and develop a revised set of instructions for a drafting communique....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This lesson uses a sports writing context for students to practice key reading and writing process skills. Presented with data and highlights about a sporting event, students synthesize the information and write original sports summaries....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Problems with bullying and violence plague many schools. This lesson helps students understand these problems in depth....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this lesson, students discuss literature through a series of letter exchanges. Though not a new idea, this lesson provides an alternative to traditional literature discussion groups....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First