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16. American Cleaning Institute: Information on Health and Safety

Activity Description

Cleaning Institute Cleaning Tips
Source: Cleaning Institute Cleaning Tips (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

This site offers a world of information about laundry and all types of cleaning tips, understanding products, sustainable cleaning as well as industry priorities. The example website includes a section called Cleaning Tips where you can apply learning to home, school, or work. "Information sheets" found in teacher resources are in a printable format such as PDF. The section on Soaps and Detergents History with a timeline offers another way to organize a lesson.

Has EEE Lesson Plan

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
17. 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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Program Areas

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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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.

Has EEE Lesson Plan

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.