ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Express Yourself
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page has suggestions for how to relieve tension and express yourself through activities such as art, writing, and sports.
Integrated Publishing
Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.
Other
Cyber Talk/about Communications
Links to several articles on interpersonal communication. Titles include "Know Your Style of Communication,"Listening as a Communications Skill," "Acknowledgment when Talking and Communicating Skills," "Conversations and Attending when...
HotChalk
Hot Chalk: Lesson Plans Page: Following Directions
Through this lesson plan, students demonstrate their understanding of the importance of following directions.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Move, Feet, Move
Making good choices is the economic principle explored here at the American Forum for Global Education. Children learn to "identify alternative choices in conflict situations" through the use of verbal and nonverbal cues.
Museum of the City of San Francisco
Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco: When the Pony Express Was in Vogue
The Virtual Museum of the City of San Francisco provides this article from the 1925 San Francisco Newsletter on the Pony Express, the first transcontinental U.S. Mail service.
University of Nebraska
University of Nebraska: Positive Parental Pressure
This article provides a list of positive things parents can do to help their teens, such as communication, supervision, participation, values, role modeling, and not giving in. Article can be found on page 7 of the PDF document.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Show and Tell
Lesson where students bring in items with which they play for "show and tell." After items have been described, those that are alike and those that are different are listed.
Character Lab
Character Lab: Great Expectations: Ask for What You Want
This author cites an example from her own life that proves why communicating exactly what you want is so important in all aspects of life.
Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies
Mocomi: Invention of Telephone
Explores the history of the telephone invention.
Other
Queendom: Communication Skills Test
Take the simple test. You may become aware of your strengths and/or weaknesses as a communicator. SL.9-10.1c Active Partic, SL.11-12.1c Questions/Part