The Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB) is an online repository containing thousands of teaching and learning resources created by Ontario certified teachers. Resources include lesson plans, videos, activities, and more. Teachers and students from Ontario school boards can search for resources by criteria like grade, subject, and format to support classroom instruction.

1. Ontario Educational Resource Bank
https://resources.elearningontario.ca/

2. What is the OERB?
The Ontario Educational Resource Bank is an online learning object repository
where teachers, students, and parents (Kindergarten to Grade 12) can access
thousands of teaching/learning resources. Within the OERB you will find lesson
plans, videos, activities, maps and interactive multimedia in a variety of formats
that can be used to support classroom instruction. All available resources are
searchable by grade level, course/subject, strand, curriculum expectation, key
word, learning style, and file format.

3. Who created the resources found in the OERB?
Everything was created by Ontario certified teachers; much of the has been
created by teachers seconded to eLearning specifically to create online courses
( identified as eLO authored), but any teacher can upload and share resources
they have created.

4. Why use the resources found in the OERB?
• To find lessons or whole units you can use “as is” or modify as needed
• To find multi-media activities to use with your entire class via a projector or
Smartboard to supplement your instruction
• To differentiate instruction for a particular student or group of students who
require varied levels of activities
•To differentiate instruction for any student or group of students who require
additional visual, auditory and/or interactive activities
•To find lessons that can be completed by students who are away (lengthy
illness, holiday, etc.) but who have access to the internet

5. For teachers:
use
hwcdsteacher
& oerbt
For students:
use
hwcdsbstudent
& oerbs
Who is authorized to use the OERB?
To use the resources on the OERB, you must be a teacher or
student in one of Ontario’s provincially funded school boards,
school authorities, provincial schools, or demonstration schools.

6. Briefly outlines the
terms of use.
Please Agree to
the terms
EACH time you log in you must “accept” the terms of use (basically you agree that
you will not post anything from the OERB on an open website or sell it or share it with a
non-approved user, and that you will give credit to the original source if you modify a
resource)

7. Use search
to find your
course. The
share option
is for
teachers
who wish to
share their
materials
with others.
For in-depth information users may access the
Ministry-generated tutorials.

8. Can limit search to French language
resources only, English language
only or both
Search OERB, Learn360 or both
Limit search to only resources written by eLO
teachers only (leave unchecked if you want to see
everything)
Search Catholic
curriculum, Publi
c, or both

9. Simple Search
This search option allows
users to search by keyword
or ELO Resource Number.
Users can also use this
option to search for entire
units of materials. Simply
enter the course code,
using Ministry coding,
followed by the words
‘entire unit’ (e.g. MPM2D
entire unit).
Browse By Curriculum
This search option allows
users to locate resources
tagged to a specific grade,
subject/course, strand, and
overall expectation. Yielded
search results can then be
further narrowed using the
OERB search filters and/or
keyword search.
Advanced Search
This search option allows
users to set their own
search parameters. Using
dropdown menus, users can
search by keyword, title,
author, resource type, file
format, description, ELO
resource number, learning
style, and/or grade.
eLO Course Units
The OERB gives teachers
access to all e-Learning
Ontario online credit course
materials. Using this search
option, users can search for
entire units of study and
activities by grade and
course code.