ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Keith Long: This instructional resource is from PBS kids and it aligns with the stated Ohio academic content standard. The standard covers the importance of leadership and public service....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The Opper Project at The Ohio State University delivers a set of 12 lessons using political cartoons from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The site content is very solid and the page presentation is user-friendly....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This lesson plan provided by the Media Awareness Network has students examine bias against youth by analyzing news sources with regards to how each source reports on crime. It is a thoughtful lesson that introduces the concept of media bias and then asks students to look for bias in their local or national media....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This speech by James I of England discusses his view on the divine right of kings. While it not the original scanned version it can be used to help students understand the role that divine right monarchies had in forming the political culture of the last five hundred years....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource has been published by the National Council for Economic Education and focuses on whether a market or command economy more negatively effects the environment. Through this exploration students are charged to understand the importance of evaluating cost when making economic decisions....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource, published by EdSitement, poses the question: Were the great industrialist of the 19th century captains of industry or were they robber barons, limiting healthy competition and robbing from the poor to benefit the rich? Using this lesson a teacher will encourage their students to define the terms robber baron and captain of industry, to...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource provided by EconEdLink presents the ideas of John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek, both of which have dominated economic theory since 1945. The article explains that, both of these influential economists had distinct ideas about economic freedom--ideas that were very clearly in opposition to each other....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource from George Mason Universitys Women in World History online project gives detailed information about the growth of the imperialist British Empire, and the lifestyles of European women who traveled abroad to British controlled territories. This resource also comes with suggested lessons centered on included paintings....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The primary source document, Morgenthaus Plan, a suggested post surrender plan for Germany can be found on teachingamericanhistory.org, a project of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs at Ashland University (Ashland, Ohio). One suggestion for use would be to have the students develop their own plan for Germany at the end of World War II...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: As a teacher, I would consider using these questions. Though the primary sources are set up as individual components for analysis in a document-based essay, they are easily broken apart anc can be used for differentiated learning activities....