ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson allows students to explore the day and night cycle through demonstration and discussion. Students then enact the sun-earth-moon system....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students explore the evaporation of a puddle through this promising practice lesson. Students begin by finding a puddle on the school grounds....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson provides students with the opportunity to examine the basic components of soil. (ts)

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson presents an opportunity for students to explore temperature and thermometers. Students begin by measuring the temperature in different locations around the school....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson provides students with an opportunity to explore various weathering processes. Students engage in activities that illustrate weathering by wind, running water, plants, and freezing water....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students explore the components of soil in this promising practice lesson. Activities include creating a soil profile, and examining soil texture and water holding capacity....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson serves as an introduction to fossils. Students observe a variety of objects and classify them as fossils or nonfossils....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: In this promising practice lesson students investigate four different ways fossils are made in sedimentary rock: impression, trace, preserved, and mineral replacement (petrification) fossils. The activities included in this lesson simulate fossil formation....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This promising practice lesson gives students an opportunity to explore soil types. This lesson would be a good introduction to a unit on soils....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This lesson will help students learn how to measure the direction and speed of wind. Students are engaged in building a wind vane and anemometer for measuring wind direction and speed....