Ontario Educational Resource Bank

The Dufferin-Peel Catholic District School Board is pleased to announce that once again it will be participating in the Ontario Educational Resource Bank.  This website allows teachers, students, and parents to access educational resources for Grades K-12 in all subject areas.

There are thousands of resources, including units, lesson plans, activities, maps, and interactive learning resources, which are:

• created by teachers for teachers, students and parents
• offered in convenient formats including Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and Flash.
• aligned with the Ontario curriculum.
• searchable by grade, course/subject, strand, overall expectations, learning style, author, file format, and keyword.
• derived from and designed for both the Public and Catholic systems.
• easy to access and use.
• downloadable and modifiable.

To access this site, visit the website www.ontario.ca/elearning. Scroll down to the bottom and you will find the link to the Ontario Educational Resource Bank. For students and parents in Dufferin-Peel, the userid is dpcdsbstudent and the password is oerbs .   Once you are logged in, read the terms of use, and click on I Agree.  You will be directed to a page where you can perform searches for resources.

Using a Simple Search, you can enter a topic to find resources. You can filter the resources by file type, author, or learning style. For example, if you only want interactive animated resources, you can filter by Shockwave-Flash.  Using a Browse by Curriculum Search, you can search by grade, course, strand, and even the specific expectation!