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This activity will show students how to use Freewordcloudgenerator to create a word cloud about their current jobs or their career goals, or words that describe their strengths (also known as soft skills or transferable skills) for their field of employment.

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In this activity, students read a completed medical history form and answer seven multiple-choice questions about the information provided.

 

 

This activity teaches AI literacy through Content. Any content can be used, but the focus of this lesson is on Dolores Huerta and follows the reading of Dolores Huerta .

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Students will create a Personality Poem along with a word cloud which is uploaded to Padlet and commented on by others.

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Students engage in conversation about the environment, practice listening comprehension by watching a video and answering questions, read an article about the harm of plastics on the environment, brainstorm ways to preserve the natural environment, write a paragraph, and create an inforgraphic based on their ideas.

Using the Web site Word It Out, students will create a word cloud from newly-learned vocabulary (colors, transportation, feelings, clothing, places in a city, rooms in a house, etc.).

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This activity offers a lesson about Martin Luther King. There is a handout that can be downloaded and an answer key.

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A free online practice test site for the 2014 GED test with the 4 sections of the GED provided by Barrons Educational Series. It includes an explanation for the right answer.

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Intermediate and advanced students learn about ancient and modern wonders of the world using the online information on the Google Arts and Culture site and other Web sites and then and share what they learn in a jigsaw reading/cooperative learning activity. As an optional follow-up, write a paragraph and/or make an oral presentation about a wonder of the world of their choosing (a museum, building, sculpture, statue, bridge, canal, dam, temple, church, cathedral, castle, or natural wonder or a UNESCO World Heritage Site) located in their native countries or elsewhere.

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In this series of video lessons, students learn how to use Google Slides in making a personal introduction presentation to the class. 

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Students will read about Dolores Huerta and learn how to develop vocabulary by using Visuwords

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Using Civic Online Reasoning we can teach our students the skills to determine if information from the internet is accurate, inaccurate or misleading. In this lesson, you will introduce Lateral Reading, then practice it using posts, news articles or blogs

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Use the essays from the NPR Radio program to create speaking/conversation activities, vocabulary learning exercises, listening (main ideas, cloze, details, etc.) activities, and follow up with extension activities in which students speak or write about themselves.

 

In this activity, students listen to a conversation between a doctor and a patient, and answer questions about the dialog.

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PIXIR is a powerful image tool that students can use without logging on. For this activity, we are only going to use the filter menu to learn how to work with filters and effects. This works as well on the computer as on a mobile device.

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Students use a comic strip site for dialog writing, in order to practice target grammar structures, vocabulary, or idioms. The site offers 325 characters, 225 scenes, and over 45,000 images, and the option to upload images. Comic strips can be viewed online or downloaded and printed. The Free version limits you to 2 storyboards per week with a 3 cell option. Students will need to make an account to use the site.

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Quizlet Live is a collaborative, high-energy review game. It's based on Quizlet, the online flashcards platform that's been around for years. Students are sorted into groups and work together to answer all 12 questions correctly in a row to win.

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Students use teacher-created flashcard sets for review and reinforcement of vocabulary words.

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This activity uses prerecorded authentic conversation in which Carl meets Pancho. Pre- and post-listening activities are provided along with immediate feedback on comprehension exercises.

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Students will use the Snappy Words Web site to help them define a term in the form of a paragraph.

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Students can use this site on their own to practice this selection of 300 frequently used academic vocabulary words is derived from the "Academic Word List" (Coxhead, 2000). Students can also use the site on their own without registration by entering words to hear pronounced and in sentences and doing activities to practice the spelling of the words. There are 30 lists of 10 select words per list from the Academic Word List. Teachers can use the site to create spelling/vocabulary lists for students to practice.

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This activity includes a video, printable worksheet, and online Web lesson on reading medicine labels.

TV411's mission is to help adults gain the basic reading, writing, math, and science skills they need to achieve their educational, career, and personal goals. They create educationally sound and entertaining multimedia learning materials and distribute them through television, the Internet, and literacy and community-based programs across the country. TV411 is a project of the Learning and Teaching Division of the Education Development Center, a non-profit organization that addresses challenges in education, health and economic development.

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In this activity, students identify foods and categorize them according to food group, discuss the MyPlate image, draw a MyPlate image showing how much of each food group they typically eat, write sentences about their eating habits and what they should change, compare their eating habits with other students, and research key consumer messages for each of the food groups on the ChooseMyPlate Web site.

This activity aims to develop student understanding of healthy, balanced eating and provides practice of basic food vocabulary, the present simple tense, comparatives (more than/less than), and the modal "should."

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This lesson will have students learn how to use an online dictionary. 

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Students describe clothing in a prepared oral presentation and explain how an outfit is appropriate for a particular event or situation.

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In this activity, students will work individually or in pairs or small groups to create synonym charts using the Web site Visuwords.