ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Teaching the Electoral College is part of a much larger website, LEARN NC. This instructional resource titled Does My Vote Count?...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource entitled "How to File an FOIA Request" is provided by the nonprofit First Amendment Center and provides a full and complete explanation of the Freedom of Information Act as well as access to that primary resource. A wealth of supporting information is made available here, including a sample request letter and many interesting informational...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: An Urban Planning Simulation, presented by the American Forum for Global Education, begins with the admirable goal of having students: improve the quality of their lives without destroying the quality of their environment. The simulation is similar to a Monopoly game gone green....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Hazardous Chemicals In Your Neighborhood is an instructional plan written by a science teacher and has a definite slant toward that particular discipline. Some of its links involve various types of chemical contaminants that would also need to be researched by the social studies student as well....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website is hosted by the National Archives and Records Administration and is titled, Treasures of Congress. It specifically gives the viewer a synopsis of the American experience by looking at great primary sources that have shaped American History....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource, hosted by the University of California, could also be used as a lesson plan about women and their evolving role in the American work force. There are several photographs, as primary resource materials, that show some of the different roles that women under took, during World War II, due to the shortage of male...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website is hosted by the University of California and the resources come predominantly from the San Diego Historical Society. It chronicles the effects of immigration patterns on the West Coast at the turn of the 20th century....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Providing images of San Francisco's 1934 General Strike that shut down one of the nation's most important ports, this resource from the University of California can be used to encourage students to think deeper about the social, economic and political impacts of the labor movement. Showing picketers and clashes with authorities while protesting for better working...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource, The Bracero Program, is provided by The University of California. It consists of a description of the Bracero Program which brought Mexican agricultural workers to California during the labor shortage of World War II and continued until 1964....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The Nation: A German Perspective on the Treaty of Versailles is a primary resource presented by OldMagazines.com, an internet site edited by Matt Jacobsen. The artifact is free to be read online and is in a digital facsimile of the original presented in PDF format....