ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: The prize for winning a radio contest provides the winner with up to $1,000,000 in cash. The catch is that the winner is only allowed one suitcase in which to carry away as much money as it will hold in $1 bills....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students are given 15 chips and a number line labeled from 2-12. They are instructed to place their 15 chips on the numbers that they think will represent the sums when two dice are rolled....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students construct charts to examine number patterns and use these patterns to generate a graph. The story of Tortisha and Harry is presented to the class: Harry is so sure that he can run faster than Tortisha, that he will give her a 2 mile head start in a race....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: First, students review Pascal's Triangle by completing and discussing the entries of the first eight rows. They then determine the total number of possible girl/boy combinations in a five-child family....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students first explore making patterns with a variety of pattern blocks. They next engage in experiments of making tile designs using only one shape by rotating that shape around a point....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This resource uses magazine advertisements and television commercials to examine the persuasive techniques seen in the media. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, allows students to develop oral and written responses to the advertisements....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: This resource uses fairy tales to teach the literary features and story structure commonly found in narrative texts. This instructional unit, maintained by the New Zealand Ministry of Education, provides opportunities for students to read a variety of fairy tales and create original stories following the structure and conventions of narrative texts....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Designated a promising practice, this literature-based unit uses a variety of trickster tales found in folktales and modern stories to teach story analysis and written response. This instructional unit allows students to analyze and compare stories and create their own trickster tale....

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Student groups assume the role of advertising agencies. Each agency has been hired by their client to make a recommendation as to the best radio station to air their advertisement....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Mathematics

Professional Commentary: Students first estimate the number of drops of water that will fit on the head of a penny. The teacher engages the class in a discussion on how to organize and display data in a stem and leaf plot....