ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Detective Leplant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the mysteries of plant life in this content resource. Each of the six cases examines a different aspect of plant life....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: The NoodleBib Starter, a free online tool developed by Noodle Tools, guides students through the basics of citing a source. Students enter bibliographic information in the appropriate fields and NoodleBib Starter generates a citation....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students use an interactive Flash animation to "build a fish." Students first select an habitat from six options: sandy beach, open ocean, coral reef, kelp forest, rocky seashore, or a marsh. They then select a mouth type, body form, caudal fin, and counter-shading....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: In this project, students create a "virtual poetry slam" featuring original poems and short pieces of personal writing. Students begin by writing, editing, and revising a short piece of poetry or personal writing....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This content resource presents information on electricity and magnetism through an interactive online module. The module introduces the student to many of the basic concepts involved with electricity and magnetism....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This content resource allows students to explore some of the forces that must be overcome for two ions to fuse together and release energy. The site includes four interactive applets that students can use to determine the relationship between several factors related to fusion: temperature and the motion of gas atoms; the relationship between kinetic energy, mass, and velocity; the effect of Coulomb forces on the motion of charged masses; and increasing temperatures and fusion....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This content resource is an applet that illustrates the principles of constructive and destructive interference in transversal waves. Students start by shaping two waves located at both ends of a line....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: The American Physical Society communicates the excitement and importance of physics through this website. Visit this site regularly to find out how physics is part of your world....

Projects: Standards First

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: This content resource challenges students to build a carbon atom one subatomic particle at a time. Students begin with a hydrogen atom consisting on 1 proton and 1 neutron....

Discipline: English Language Arts

Professional Commentary: Student contracts provide a practical way to differentiate instruction in the classroom. By giving students the opportunity to develop a contract, they are able to become more responsible for their schoolwork and more enthusiastic about their education....

Projects: Writing 6-12, Standards First