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136. All Math: Online Math Facts Practice

Activity Description

Online Math Flashcards
Source: Math Flashcards (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

Use this site for basic math practice for students. The site has many options for creating math exercises:

  • Can select timing between problems
  • Can select single or multiple kinds of math problems
  • Can choose to show no new problems if the answer is wrong
  • The site will keep score and shows percentage of correct responses

The site has a metric converter, math glossary, printable empty multiplication table, and links to other math sites. Easy to navigate.

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
137. APlusMath: Math Flash Cards

Activity Description

Math Flashcard Creator
Source: Math Flashcard Creator (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

If your basic math students need practice using basic math functions, then this site has Whole Number Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division in a flashcard format. It can be timed too.

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

Low, Intermediate
138. Ben's Guide for U.S. Government for Kids

Activity Description

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 levles and ages: Apprentice 4-8, Journeyman 9-13,  Master14+.

Ben (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

This site is particularly useful in teaching the basics of U.S. Government as needed in the new 2014 GED test. Assign each topic to a student or student pair. Have them read about the topic and write about the topic and present what they learned to the class.

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

Intermediate, High
139. Big Huge Labs: Create a Calendar

Activity Description

Calendar Creator
Source: Create Monthly Calendars Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

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.

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
140. Big Huge Labs: Motivational Poster - Famous Quotes or Proverbs

Activity Description

Motivator Posters
Source: Motivator Poster Tool (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

For this activity, students will create a motivational poster from a famous quote or proverb using the Web site Big Huge Labs. As a follow-up, students can make an oral presentation or write a paragraph explaining the importance of this quote or proverb in their lives.

Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 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.