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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Smart Move!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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...
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Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Facs: Communication Games

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
This lesson engages students in communication games. Students will learn how to play "Cosmic Motions" and "Silent Ball" to practice communication skills.
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Lesson Plan
ArtsNow

Arts Now Learning: My Sound Is the Best! [Pdf]

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
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...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Miscommunication Happens (And How to Avoid It)

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Katherine Hampsten describes why miscommunication occurs so frequently, and how we can minimize frustration while expressing ourselves better. [4:32]
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Article
Other

Self growth.com: The Art of Communicating

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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.
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Unit Plan
Other

Data Guru: The Communication Process

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This communication tutorial focuses on online communication in which interpretation can lead to conflict.
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Article
Mind Tools

Introducation to Communication Skills

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Elements of Speech Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson discusses the elements of speech communication including the speaker, message, types of channels, audience, and feedback.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Multimodality: What Is a Mode?

For Students 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on the definition of mode, the five modes of communication, and the difference between mode and medium.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Multimodality: The Five Modes of Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on the five modes of communication: visual, linguistic, spatial, aural, and gestural along with examples of each.
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Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Examples of Multimodal Texts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson focuses on providing examples of multimodal texts, those using more than one mode of communication in the same text.
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Unit Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Curriculum Hub: Ela Guidebooks: Application Student Selected Task: Prepare for a Discussion

For Students 9th
Practice adhering to the discussion norms to prepare for a discussion. This will help students participate more effectively in the discussion.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Cooperative Learning: How to Assign Meaningful Tasks

For Teachers 3rd - 8th Standards
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides cooperative grouping strategies. Students will be able to communicate effectively with the aid of this resource.
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Activity
Daily Teaching Tools

Daily Teaching Tools: Examples in Other Core Academic Areas

For Teachers 6th - 8th
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.
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Handout
Integrated Publishing

Integrated Publishing: The Communication Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
With text and diagrams, this article surveys the communication process, which consists of a message being sent and received, either verbally or nonverbally.