TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Smart Move!
This is a simple activity to visualize a communication system. In order to do this the students encode, decode, transmit, receive, and store messages. They will use a code sheet and flashlight for this process. They will also maintain a...
Utah Education Network
Uen: Facs: Communication Games
This lesson engages students in communication games. Students will learn how to play "Cosmic Motions" and "Silent Ball" to practice communication skills.
ArtsNow
Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]
In this lesson, students will use music as an impetus for stating and supporting opinions. They will compose an opinion poster based on a narrative about a train using percussion instruments. This will involve group work which can lead...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: How Miscommunication Happens (And How to Avoid It)
Katherine Hampsten describes why miscommunication occurs so frequently, and how we can minimize frustration while expressing ourselves better. [4:32]
Other
Self growth.com: The Art of Communicating
On this site, Hal Warfield explains interpersonal communication and examines the communication process. Words highlighted in blue offer links to more information on the topic.
Other
Data Guru: The Communication Process
This communication tutorial focuses on online communication in which interpretation can lead to conflict.
Mind Tools
Introducation to Communication Skills
This article reveals the purpose of communication: to get your message across to others. This may seem elementary, but the process that involves both the sender of the message and the receiver is complex and can lead to confusion and...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Multimodality: What Is a Mode?
This activity focuses on the definition of mode, the five modes of communication, and the difference between mode and medium.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Multimodality: The Five Modes of Communication
This lesson focuses on the five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural, and gestural along with examples of each.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Examples of Multimodal Texts
This lesson focuses on providing examples of multimodal texts, those using more than one mode of communication in the same text.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare for a Discussion
Practice adhering to the discussion norms to prepare for a discussion. This will help students participate more effectively in the discussion.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides a series of prompts to use when putting students into cooperative groups. Students will be grouped via a Jigsaw activity with core academic area questions.
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.