ABE: Adult Basic Education

PlayPosit is the old EduCanon. It helps you take a video of your choice and add questions for students to answer. It has all the advantages of videos (stop, rewind, re-watch, self-paced) as well as the opportunity to re-mediate student learning with specific feedback for wrong answers.

Screenshot of a sample video with inserted questions.

The free account allows you to create bulbs' (videos in which you have added questions), have 1 GB of storage, and monitor your students. There is a premium account (pay) that allows a wide variety of questions types and lets you use a large bank of already created video bulbs.

While we would like to have a "pre-created" activity for you to use in class, the nature of this tool does not allow us to share activities unless we have a paid account, which we do not. But we feel it is a very valuable tool, so we are including it here in Teaching with Technology with instructions on how to use it and a completed example put together by the site creators.

Source: https://sheg.stanford.edu/history-lessons/pocahontas (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

In this activity, students use primary sources to answer the question of whether Pocahontas saved John Smith’s life.

Screenshot of the Reading Like a Historian lesson on Pocahontas

The Reading Like a Historian curriculum engages students in historical inquiry. Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features sets of primary documents modified for groups of students with diverse reading skills and abilities. U.S. History consists of the following Units:

• Unit 1: Introduction
• Unit 2: Colonial
• Unit 3: Revolution and Early America
• Unit 4: Expansion/Slavery
• Unit 5: Civil War and Reconstruction
• Unit 6: The Gilded Age
• Unit 7: American Imperialism
• Unit 8: Progressivism
• Unit 9: World War I and the 1920s
• Unit 10: New Deal and World War II
• Unit 11: Cold War
• Unit 12: Cold War Culture/Civil Rights
• Unit 13: Late 1900s and Early 2000s

Practical Money Skills has lesson plans, Student Activities, PowerPoints and Presentations by grade for students. They include lesson plans for students with disabilities as well. Here are the 14 lesson plans designed for grades 7-8

Source: Practical Money Skills (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

 This website has information and lesson plans to use in teaching practical money skills. Topics include Credit and Debt Basics, Saving and Spending, Planning for Life Events, and more. Modules are at various levels. Each module includes lesson plans, instruction guides, discussion questions, quizzes, written exercises, and answer keys. Lessons are designed for all levels and for all ages. Great interactive games are available.

Source: Wakelet: Man grabbing his shoulder (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

 

Students can choose different stories to read. Each story has 4 activities plus a typing practice.