ABE: Adult Basic Education

Use this Web site to make online quizzes, polls, ratings, or surveys for your classes. The  account provides 2,500 signals for free, then requires an upgrade to a paid account.

Education World offers ten lessons about December celebrations, observances, and activities from several cultures. Included are: A Hanukkah game, a Kwanzaa recipe, and other ideas. The one featured here is an activity that involves students in diagramming similarities and differences in holiday celebrations!

What if you want to be able to access your favorite Web sites from any computer and share these with your students? You could use an online social bookmarking Web site that allows you to bookmark, and share specific Web sites students can use to reinforce or review course content, or do research for class assignments without the need for typing in long URLs.

Try using Diigo (see Web site above) to save not only bookmarks online, but also screenshots, documents, highlighted notes, and images. With an educator’s account (see Web Site Example above), you can set up a "learning network" by creating student accounts, grouping students into separate classes or groups for online collaboration, or setting up groups for collaboration with other teachers.

Students practice vocabulary or grammar (parts of speech) using customized puzzles you create with this site's online puzzle-making tools. The puzzles can be used for supplemental practice activities, fillers, or as homework. Puzzles types include word search, criss-cross (crossword), double puzzle, fallen phrase, letter tiles, cryptogram, and hidden message.

Screenshot of Discovery Education's Puzzle Maker page

In this activity students will read about Driving Etiquette as a class and then break into small groups to study a second topic and present what they learned to the class.

DMV.org is not affiliated with any state government. Their goal is to bring the DMV and safety to everyone in a simple and easy to understand format. Other topics at the site include Licensing, ID, Registration and Title, Tickets and Violations, Insurance, Buying and Selling Cars, Car Maintenance, How to Pack an Emergency Kit, and more.