ORC Resource Types

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students examine wildflower data compiled from student's journals and determine patterns of seasonal growth. They then use these patterns to predict patterns for missing data....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students will conduct an experiment to determine what type of environment sow bugs prefer. This task assesses students' abilities to make predictions, collect and organize data, use multiple variables, and make comparisons....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students collect data on the cooling of water in two different test tubes- one wrapped in wet newspaper and one in dry newspaper. They then identify trends in their data, make predictions, and describe how their experiment is similar to the body's perspiration....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students design a controlled study to test a new experimental drug. They write a report to send for committee approval....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students examine graphical data describing the behavior of paramecia under various conditions. They determine patterns, make predictions, and describe basic physiological processes....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students analyze the genetic characteristics of some hypothetical seeds. This assessment task is to be used after students have had instruction in Mendelian genetics....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: In this activity students will observe and analyze genetic data and use the data to predict outcomes. Each pair of students will observe and record genetic traits, using a description of traits and a chart provided....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students apply knowledge of genetics to the occurrence of traits on a family tree. The students will use their knowledge and understanding of classic Mendelian genetics to analyze a given family tree and describe depicted genotypes, dominant and recessive traits, and sex-linked characteristics....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students analyze how the Law of Conservation of Energy applies to the design and use of scissors. Working in groups, students will determine the output work for a standard pair of scissors....

Discipline: Science

Professional Commentary: Students work on a group project to develop a new line of nutritional snacks. The team is to submit a proposal for a snack that not only tastes good, but is nutritional as well....