ABE: Adult Basic Education

Ben's Guide to U. S. Government for Kids is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides electronic access to information about U.S. history and government. This site is organized by levels and ages: Apprentice 4-8, Journeyman 9-13,  Master14+. This helps in presenting the information by reading level as well as complexity.

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This site is particularly useful in teaching the basics of U.S. Government as needed in the GED test. Assign each topic to a student or student pair. Have them read about the topic, write about the topic and present what they learned to the class.

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Flickr Toys, also known as Big Huge Labs, is the Website for doing creative, fun projects with digital images that the user uploads, or by using Flickr images, Photobucket images, or entering the URL (Web address) for an online image.

By uploading a photo, a wide range of special effects can be added, including adding a museum-style matte, making a jigsaw puzzle from a photo, making a mosaic from several pictures, adding photo frames, giving a photo a Warhol effect (a la Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe pop art—see sample below), transforming a photo into bead art, making a cube of photos, making a photo collage, and creating a pocket-sized photo album.

For literacy, ABE, and other classes, the site's other image tools can be used as the bases for writing and speaking assignments. The types of projects both instructors and students can do using the site are numerous.

For this activity, have students make a monthly calendar with a class photo.

This lesson plan will give you several activites to introduce breathing techniques in the classroom.