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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...
College Grad
Job Hunter: The Nonverbal Interview Technique
This article discusses the non-verbal communications skills that need to be mastered in order to succeed in an interview.
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.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Understanding Language
This lesson focuses on understanding the language, both verbal and non-verbal, of your speech. It discusses the importance of language, word choice, purpose and audience, ways of thinking about language, venue and occasion, and delivery.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us
This very detailed lesson plan includes readings, discussion questions, handouts, interactives and a rubric, all aimed at helping students construct a themed memoir while documenting the artistic process they used to create it.
Other
Communication in Math Activities for Grades K 2
Early learners can build their math communication skills with these "Real-world," writing and problem solving activities. Students focus on developing strategies for using math vocabulary and writing about math.
Wisc-Online
Wisc Online: Intercultural Communication: Gestures
In this learning module, students will recognize common gestures and identify the meanings associated with those gestures.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: Life's Little Questions: Investigate the Yawn
Explore observational psychology by conducting an informal study on yawning. Present an oral essay before a group while continually interrupting the talk with yawns, observe the reactions of the audience and ask them to explain their...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Math Maven's Mysteries
Scholastic.com offers information on how to use the Math Maven's Mysteries to enhance problem-solving skills, partly through class discussion. For the actual mysteries, click on Math Maven Home.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Theories of the Early Stages of Language Acquisition
Language is the primary method of human communication, but there are also other ways to communicate without the use of language. Language in its most complex form is unique to humans, although some animals have been found to have basic...