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Conspiracy Theory: Lincoln's Assassination
Students determine how the Lincoln assassination impacted the United States. In this conspiracy theory lesson, students examine selected primary sources and chart the information they gather from the sources.
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Hitting the Roof
Students examine the state of the British housing market. In this current events lesson, students visit selected websites to study Gordon Brown's plan for eco-towns, how to borrow money to buy homes, and what the home prices are in...
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Speaking Skills - Asking Questions
Students focuses on the question form and helping students gain skill while switching tenses in the question form. They improve speaking confidence when using quesion forms.
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Learning Online
Students use online tutorials. In this online learning activity, students explore online learning websites and use tutorials to learn about a topic of their choice.
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Reading Food Labels
Students investigate the concept of phonemic awareness in order to help increase reading comprehension. The reading of food labels creates the context for the practice session. They pay particular attention to certain sounds that must be...
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Jobs
Students practice their vocabulary skills. In this language arts activity, students examine pictures and textbook questions in order to expand their vocabulary related to jobs and careers.
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Good Enough To Eat
Students are introduced to the five food groups. In groups, they place different foods into the correct section of the Food Pyramid. Using different types of technology, they create one page of a class ABC book sharing what they know...
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ADULT ESOL LESSON PLAN--Level 2--Telephone Communication
Students, after extensively reviewing the vocabulary list on the board, examine the form of communication that deals with all the aspects of a telephone: telephone bill, customer service, billing and disconnection/reconnecting fees.
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Car For Sale!
Learners practice their writing and editing skills by developing a plan for and then writing a grammatically correct description of an item (car or otherwise) that they would like to sell.
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Setting Goals for Success
Young scholars set SMART (Specific, Measurable, Action Oriented, Realistic, and Time-framed) goals to guide their educational journey. These goals are written down and placed in the student's portfolio.
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Managing Medical Conditions
Twelfth graders discover more about a medical condition that is of interest to them and write what they have learned about that condition, using the information as a personal resource or to share with others.
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Study Of Birds
Students investigate the Spanish language looking for words related to birds and their habitat. They write phrases and sentences using the words. Gradually they attempt to use the correct sentence structure in conjunction with reading...
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Peer Review of My School and Community Activities
Twelfth graders complete activities to explore life goals. In this career goals activity, 12th graders write a list of their community activities and write a statement of their life goals. Students discuss their life goals with a peer.
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English to Go: "Chocolate"
Discover the origin and history of chocolate while practicing reading. Expanding word recognition and usage with a word puzzle to finish off provides a great instant activity. This is a sample activity from a subscription site.
BioEd Online
Bio Ed Online: How Much Water Do Humans Need?
In this lesson students learn how much water is used and lost during a variety of common daily activities. Student sheets are provided in English and in Spanish.
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Target Tests and Target Lessons That Teach Phonics
This site has simple lessons that use images and everyday words to demonstrate the usage of diphthongs, regular vowels, and irregular vowels. Click on on one of the "Phonics Lessons," to prepare for one of the corresponding tests.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Modeling
This strategy helps students understand the expectations for a written task, refine their writing about texts, and improve their language skills, including using standard English grammar, usage, conventions, and vocabulary in writing.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Organizational Frames for Writing
This strategy helps students prepare and organize thoughts about text, develop a written response in the form of a short or extended response, and use standard English grammar, usage, and conventions in writing.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Modeling (Mentor Texts)
This strategy helps students understand an author's craft, refine their writing about texts, and improve their language skills, including using standard English grammar, usage, conventions, and vocabulary in writing.