ABE: Adult Basic Education

Have students use this app’s 10-question quizzes to practice and test themselves on:

• Adjectives Word Choice
• Adverbs Word Choice
• Causative Verbs
• Conditionals
• Conjunctions
• Nouns Word Choice
• Prepositions
• Pronouns Word Choice
• Similar Words
• Verb Tense
• Mock Test (randomly-selected questions from each topic).

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

Hands on Banking from Wells Fargo offers free, online financial courses that students can do on their own, as well as a Financial Curriculum for Educators that includes lessons and activities with scenarios and discussions. Anyone can download the free PDF instructor guides. Iinstructor guides are centered on financial literacy topics. We will be looking at the unit on Banking Basics [pdf] which covers financial institutions, savings accounts, checking accounts, ATM & debit cards, and using and managing bank accounts.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

If your adult students do not actually dress up in costumes and get in on the spirit of Halloween themselves, their children probably go trick-or-treating, so they will likely partake in the holiday in some manner, if only to hand out candy. You can bring the topic of this holiday into your classroom lessons with an academic objective by using the History.com's video and writing a summary of the holiday. There are more videos available at the site.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

High

Use this site to teach your students about American and religious holidays including historical and factual information as well as holiday-related activities.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

How Stuff Works is a Web site that tells you just that - how stuff works. It contains thousands of topics including these main categories:

• Adventure
• Auto
• Culture: Geography, History, People
• Entertainment
• Health: Diseases & Conditions, Medicine (including First Aid & Medications), Wellness (including Food & Nutrition, Diet & Fitness)
• Home & Garden: Real Estate (including home buying)
• Lifestyles: Cooking, Family (including Education, Holidays, Household)
• Money: Business (including Jobs), Economics (including Currency, Money & Ethcs, the Stock Market), Jobs, Personal Finance (including Budgeting & Saving, Taxes, Online Banking, Credit, Banking)
• Science: Engineering, Physical Science (including Chemistry), Innovation, Environmental Science
• Tech: Computers, Internet, Electronics

Check out the videos quizzes, and games as well. The reading level is intermediate to high so you may have to use it for group or class discussion.

A suggested activity would be to show The Computer Tour Video (Example Web Site, above) and have students fill out the study guide (Example Document, above) How Things Work Computers.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Intermediate, High