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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

How Do I Act Like A Friend?

For Teachers K
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the meaning of being a friend. They take part in a series of activities to define the meaning of friendship. Students are presented with scenarios and then role-play how to act to...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Shop 'Til You Drop

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students compare food prices to find the lowest unit price and make choices about where to shop and what to purchase on weekly items, cost comparisons and items needed. They collect grocery ads and weekly sale flyer's to expedite their...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Math! What's It All About?

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students explore what it means to solve problems and communicate in real life situations. They recognize math in a variety of real life materials. Also, they determine what procedures they use to solve a problem and what areas of math...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Population Pyramids

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Students utilize population pyramids to answer questions, make comparisons, draw conclusions and support predictions about the populations of China, India and the Unites States. They arrange numbers and symbolic information from various...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicating with "I Messages", Part 2

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to ways they share their feelings with others. After brainstorming situations where "I messages" would be appropriate, pairs of students write messages from the lists they developed. They discuss how their messages...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

A Rewarding Endeavor

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Learners develop a survey to find out if people would return an envelope of money they found. Include options for giving it to the police, advertising for the one who lost it. Students place their research in a feature article that...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Communicate and collaborate using technology

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers participate in a collaborative project with another class and view their process of creating the project using technology. Then they use a digital camera and send pictures electronically, saving the pictures to the...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Mathematical Magazines

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Young scholars classify and tabulate the type of advertisements found in a collection of magazines. Determination is made on what percent of the total number of ads each type represents. They present their results orally and in a graph.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Maintaining Employment, ESOL

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students discuss work schedule and brainstorm all words associated with a work schedule. They write a class story about job skills then evalutate acceptable and unacceptable activities during employment.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Starting the School Year off with a Bang!

For Teachers Higher Ed
Student teachers learn the significance of asking questions of their principal and preparing/organizing their classrooms for a successful beginning of their school year.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Working With Parents

For Teachers Higher Ed
Student teachers learn the importance of understanding the family dynamics of their students to effectively communicate academic and behavioral concerns.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs: The Life of Birds: Bird Brains

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the intelligence of birds. There are many examples to illustrate communication, use of tools, and general resourcefulness that many birds show.
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Article
Other

Communication Is Wonderful, if It Ever Takes Place

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a brief, but insightful article about the importance of communication, how we communicate, and why we sometimes fail to communicate.
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Interactive
Other

Padlet: Paper for the Web

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Tool that makes it easy to collaborate on a project. Users can incorporate images, music, video, and web resources.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Power of Simple Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A fun, playful introduction to using short, simple words when attempting to communicate a point of information. [2:02] W.9-10.2d lang/voc
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Can Plants Talk to Each Other?

For Students 9th - 10th
Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn't seem that way: They don't have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it sounds, plants can communicate with each...
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Do Animals Have Language?

For Students 9th - 10th
All animals communicate. But do they have language? Michele Bishop details the four specific qualities we associate with language and investigates whether or not certain animals utilize some or all of those qualities to communicate. [4:55]
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: The Language of Lying

For Students 9th - 10th
Noah Zandan uses some famous examples of lying to illustrate how we might use communications science to analyze the lies themselves. [5:41]
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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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Website
Other

Gold Rush Chronicles: The Pony Express

For Students 9th - 10th
At this comprehensive site, students learn about the first cross-country mail courier service in the United States, the Pony Express.
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Handout
Other

High Tech Productions: History of Film & Television

For Students 9th - 10th
High Tech Productions provides a timeline history of television. It starts at the invention of the motion picture camera and goes all the way through television's greatest moments.
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Article
Other

The Ceo Refresher: There's No Communication Around Here!

For Students 9th - 10th
The art of communication and its need by all managers and leaders is discussed. Examples of communication lines is provided.
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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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Unit Plan
Other

Cyber Talk/about Communications

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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...