ABE: Adult Basic Education

Mindmoto helps students create mind maps online. They can then share them with others and create presentations. This tool is great for brainstorming collaboratively. The free account offers 3 free mindmaps.

For this activity, students make a mind map, create a presentation of the mind map, and present it to the class.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

This excellent Web site presents a contextual phonics model for teaching reading to American-born adults.

In the online versions, audio/visual stories are read to the student emphasizing certain sounds. The student can read along and repeat the story at the end. The student practices typing sounds that are spoken. There is a print version of each story. A general Lesson Plan (PDF) and a supplementary lesson plan (PDF) is available to assist the teacher in teaching the low literacy student. Word and Number Bingo cards are available for reinforcement.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low

This Web site from NASA has many lesson plans. The lesson highlighted here is the history of the rocket. It will use the Pictorial History of Rockets handout (PDF file) found on the Example Web Site (above) as a starting point for student research.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Intermediate, High

November is National American Indian Heritage Month. The National Museum of the American Indian at the Smithsonian Institution has several exhibits and collections that are currently on display and links to exhibits from the past.

To learn more about the Maya, select Living Maya Time . There are videos and other activities the students/class can watch allowing students to prepare reports on what they learn or as a summarizing activity and/or play the game at the Example Web Site (above). By playing this Lotería, a bingo-like game popular in México, students will become familiar with Maya cultural symbols such as calendar glyphs and other iconography found in the Living Maya Time Web site.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

Use videos to examine the Changing Planet. Videos include Infectious Diseases, Ocean Acidification, Ocean Temperatures, Rising Sea Levels, Survival of Trees, Thawing Permafrost, and more

 

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels