ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The content resource, "Elections: Voting" from the Congress for Kids website by The Dirksen Congressional Center offers a brief description of the concept of voting. The webpage is part of an online interactive tour of elections which is in turn part of a larger online tour of federal government....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource provides six scenarios for students to evaluate. After reading each scenario, students are to determine if the service stated in each scenerio is the responsibility of the local government or the state government....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: The fourth grade indicator expects the student to know the responsibilities of each of the three branches of government. Ben's Guide is an excellent site to provide this information to the students....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource is a seven-page article that chronicles the founding of our nation from Colonial resistance of British rule and the Revolutionary War, through the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. The Library of Congresss American Memory provides this fantastic article....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource, Branches of Government, is provided by Bens Guide to U.S. Government....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Your Neighborhood is a part of Bens Guide to the U.S. government website....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Keith Wayne: The content resource, Election: The American Way from The Library of Congress is an excellent resource for answering the Who?, How?, and What? of American elections....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: In this content resource presented by PBS, the students view a two minute animated video about voting. This video uses contradictory reasons in a unique way to show students the reasons Americans should vote....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource is from Congress for Kids and covers the significance of the Declaration of Independence and the Constution. Students read each section on the Declaration and the Constitution, and then take a little mini quiz on the section that they have read....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: "Ohio: Exports, Jobs and Foreign Investments" is an article from the International Trade Administration for TEACHERS ONLY. Instructors, getting ready to teach a unit on Interdependence (Economics Benchmark C, Indicator 6) for fourth grade, read this article....