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11. All Tech Considered from NPR

Activity Description

NPR Technology
Source: NPR Technology Entries (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

NPR's "All Things Considered" airs its series called "All Tech Considered" which explores the sometimes daunting—always-changing—world of technology. If you are baffled by your cell phone, or your students are wondering what their kids mean when they say they are tweeting on Twitter, All Tech Considered explores many of these areas and could be of help. Try sending your students here to look up information that interests them. Not all stories have an audio component, so look for ones that have "Listen to the Story" or the word "podcast." Podcasts of many of the archived shows are downloadable and the segments are usually under 10 minutes.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
12. Animoto: Vocabulary

Activity Description

Animoto Vocabulary Template
Source: Animoto Vocabulary Template (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
  1.  Using Animoto, assign one term or item on a vocabulary list to individual students or small groups to make slideshows that can be posted on a Web page.
  2. Use the built-in music choices or upload music (must be an mp3 audio file). Among Animoto's built-in music choices are Top 40, Indie Rock, Electronica, HipHop, Latin, Jazz, Classical, Country, and others submitted by musicians.
  3. Add images and choose special effects.
Animoto is free for making 30-second videos if you request an Educational account when you register. Other Animoto accounts are paid, but you can get a free one-year account for 50 students. Go to the Web Site URL listed below. Scroll down to "Are you a teacher?" You can reapply each year.

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ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
13. BBC Skillswise: Formulas

Activity Description

 

BBC Factsheets and Worksheets
Source: BBC Factsheets and Worksheets (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

In this activity, students watch a short video on Formulas, receive instruction with the help of fact sheets, complete worksheets, and finally take a quiz on the topic. Formula factsheets include:

  • Formulas
  • What is a formula?
  • Understanding terms and expressions
  • Understanding formulas
  • Working with formulas

Downloadable Worksheets include:

  • Matching problems with calculations
  • Missing numbers
  • Solving problems
  • Changing word problems into symbols and numbers
  • Identifying formulas
  • Identifying number patterns
  • Identifying sequences
  • Using a formula to find a value
  • Writing formulas in words
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Program Areas

ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Intermediate, High
14. Bodies in Motion-Using Tables to create rules

Activity Description

Bodies in Motion
Source: Bodies in motion by Christina Hyatt (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
Students will learn how to use tables to describe patterns as rules both in words and in algebraic notation. 

 

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, CTE: Career Technical Education, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
15. Book Bento

Activity Description

geometric bento box
Source: Freepik by Freepik (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
In this activity, an update on the traditional book report, students exercise visual literacy to summarize and reflect on their reading by arranging images that represent characters, places, events in the plot of a book or chapter or story read in class in the form of a Bento box (Japanese lunch box), take a photo, and make a presentation.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.