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Garden Variety Geometry
A home improvement plan can help adult learners preparation for the GED exam. They review vocabulary, prepare diagrams, complete a worksheet, calculate perimeters and analyze how to approach a story problem. They identify many geometry...
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Paragraph Building
Build the skills your budding authors need to develop to compose well-structured paragraphs. Give them the topic sheet (included here), and have them write a cohesive paragraph using the ideas listed. Consider having them include two...
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"We're Back ... Eagles Soar!"
Young scholars use information from Internet websites to create a map of where Bald Eagle habitats can be found after being familiarized with the map by the instructor.
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Mixing in the Kitchen
Learners identify the different types of mixtures. They identify examples of solutions, suspensions, colloidal dispersions, and emulsions through a game and basic experiments.
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Super Dollar Special
Students read the Super Dollar Special. In this advertisement lesson, students read an article consider placing an advertisement in the newspaper. They work on summarizing what they've read and using context clues.
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Reading for Comprehension on the GED
Pupils preparing for the GED test practice the components of reading for comprehension. Students complete a practice test activity and use a calculator to score the practice test.
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The Ideal Employee
Students participate in role playing activities that help them practice successful job interview skills. They take part in mock interviews with employers from the surrounding area. This provides excellent feedback for students about their m
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Who's Got Page 10?
Students participate in an activity that is aimed at increasing their organizational skills. They reorganize magazines that have been taken apart and scrambled.
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Personal Information Sheet
Young scholars access the material necessary to complete an employment application. They produce a personal data sheet, examine the information needed for job applications, and complete a generic application.
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The Cost of Raising a Child
Students study the cost of raising students based on different geographic locations and income levels. They study tables from the USDA and listen to audio tapes.
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Recycling - A Job Everyone Can Do
Young scholars research recycling effort that take place in the US. They play an online game and complete handouts using Internet research.
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Identifying Implications
Students read a variety of reading passages and articles. They investigate how to make implications and assumptions using the information provided.
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Objective Versus Subjective
Students examine the difference between subjective and objective statements, newscasts, and media. They discover that subjective is opinion based and objective is fact based.
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Online GED Practice
Students who are preparing to take the General Education Equivalency (GED) exam access online websites and take online practice tests. They work independently or with a GED teacher to prepare themselves to take the actual GED test.
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Reading to Calculate
Young scholars follow directions utilizing the Casio calculator to accurately solve calculations involving fractions in preparation for the math portion of the GED test. They stress the ability of reading instructions precisely and...
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Reading to Calculate
Students explore uses of the calculator. They explore using reading strategies to solve problems. Students recognize when calculators are useful. They construct real life situations for calculator use.
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Math Training Module: Using the Internet in Support of GED Math Instruction, Session One: Overview
Students brainstorm about math they do every day, and explore relevant web sites to find definitions of "numeracy." They then explain relevance of the definitions of numeracy to their own instructional practices.
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Right to Privacy?
Students listen to a teacher reading of the freedoms included in the First Amendment. They, in small groups, read two editorials about privacy, and compare and contrast the two.
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Recycling
Pupils examine the impact of recycling on the economy and environment. They develop a recycling plan for their own community in order to solve recycling problems.
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American Council on Education: Ged Testing Service
The American Council on Education provides facts and statistics about the GED and the people who have taken it. Enter the site to find this information.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 10 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships, jobs, and human body.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 9 [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships, jobs, places, and actions.
English for Everyone
English for Everyone: Sentence Completion 8 (High Beginning Level) [Pdf]
English for Everyone provides a printable quiz to assess the words associated with family relationships, jobs, places, and human body.
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Thomson Learning: Test Preparation
Resource to obtain necessary information about the GED, LSAT, SAT, ACT, CLEP, MCAT, and TOEFL. Contains descriptions of the tests, helpful test-taking tips, time limits, and sample questions with full explanations of correct answers....