ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: Nationmaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. This site is compiled with data from the CIA World Factbook, the United Nation and the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This resource lists the longitude and latitude of major cities in all 50 states of the United States. This resource would support lessons requiring students to plot coordinates or identify the coordinates of a assigned cities....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource is a fun way for students to learn latitude and longitude. It is a four-step explanation of the concepts, with the fourth containing a quiz for students to practice what they have learned....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website developed by the University of Texas at Austin offers online maps of current interest. Viewers will be able to explore current interest (very timely!), general interest and historical maps of almost any destination in the world....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This is a great website to send student to because it is easy to read and filled with interesting pictures. Fortunately, it is directly aligned to the Ohio content standards for geography and human movement....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource titled Cropping Patterns, by Wessels Living History Farm, portrays how different agricultural goods are produced in different regions of the United States. Through a clear explanation on areas of the United States that specialize in agricultural goods, the resource also provides a then and now section that imparts the role of hybrid seeding...

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website provides outstanding demographic information about the American population. It poses tough questions like, "Can America sustain a population of a billion?" Students would consistently be engaged if the teacher uses this information within their lesson....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website is a fantastic resource for 8th grade social studies teachers teaching about the Declaration of Independence. There are a variety of links to all things concerning the Declaration including: the text of the document, signer's biographies, Jefferson's account of the writing and signing, the house in which the Constitution was signed, etc......

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This content resource is applicable for teacher to use in the development of a lecture on federalism. Definitions and examples of specific powers for both the states and the federal government are provided....

Discipline: Social Studies

Professional Commentary: This website is great for studying the Constitution's provisions of separation of power. It also provides detailed descriptions of the British, French, Canadian and Mexican interpretations of separation of powers that gives students a way to compare and better understand each country's political system....