ABE: Adult Basic Education

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

The Internal Revenue Service has detailed lesson plans to guide your instruction from the introduction of a given income tax concept, through its development, to the lesson conclusion. Materials include printable PDFs for use in a traditional classroom setting, along with interactive online activities. The flexibility of this program allows you to customize this program to fit the learning needs of your students.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Intermediate, High

Kahoot is a game-based student response system. You can create and play quizzes, or initiate discussions and surveys. They can be accessed by the students using any device with a Web browser including a laptop, iPad, iPhone, iPod, Android, Chromebook, or desktop computer. The app is NOT necessary to participate in a Kahoot! activity.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels

Math Fact Cafe provides math fact sheets, flashcards, and online practice for students. The focus of the site is on math taught in the elementary grades K-5, but can be used with ABE students. You can access hundreds of pre-generated math sheets or create custom sheets to meet a student's specific needs.

ABE: Adult Basic Education

Low, Intermediate