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26. C-SPAN: American Presidents Life Portraits

Activity Description

 

American Presidents Series
Source: https://www.c-span.org/series/?presidents&pres=46 (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this activity, students watch a biographical vignette about an American president of choice and take notes. Students are then asked to write an essay about the president selected and share what they learned with the class. This site also has teacher guides for all 41 programs from C-SPAN’s television series, American Presidents: Life Portraits. There are also numerous video resources to enhance classroom instruction on presidents.

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Diploma, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation
27. Describing Images with Padlet and AI

Activity Description

Boy eating ice cream with dog
Source: Padlet AI (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Students will use descriptive skills to create an AI picture similar to the one the teacher displays.

 

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels, All Levels
28. Description Writing with AI Image Generators

Activity Description

In this activity, students write descriptions of an image using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, learn about AI image prompting, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills.

Screenshot of Google Arts & Culture Say What You See
Source: Say What You See by Google (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this lesson, students write descriptions using adjectives, apply adjective order rules, generate images using AI image generation tools, and evaluate and improve their descriptive writing skills. The follow-up is a descriptive writing assignment.
 

 

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
29. EconEdLink: Understanding a Balance Sheet

Activity Description

Understanding a Balance Sheet
Source: EconEdLink: Understanding a Balance Sheet Lesson Plan (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

In this activity, students learn the components of a balance sheet by working through many problems to strengthen their understanding. Students complete a balance sheet for business by entering the names of the accounts and calculating total assets, liabilities, and net worth. Students then make predictions on how the balance sheet changes when there are changes to assets and liabilities.

EconEdLink has financial literacy lessons written for K–12. They also provide access to the latest economic news and information. Choose Current Events on the "educator" menu to learn more about what is happening in the world of economics and access related lesson plans. Links to economic data resources can also be found on the "educator" menu. Take time to look this one over, including both the educator section and the student section.

 

 

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Diploma, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

Levels

High
30. EconEdLink: Where Does the Money Come From?

Activity Description

EconEdLink: Where Does the Money Come From?
Source: Where Does the Money Come From? Lesson page (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this activity, students calculate federal tax revenues collected in several different scenarios, learn about different kinds of taxes, and explore sales tax in different states.

 

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Diploma, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

Levels

All Levels
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN240137 from the Adult Education Office, in the Career & College Transition Division, California Department of Education, with funds provided through Federal P.L., 105-220, Section 223. However, OTAN content does not necessarily reflect the position of that department or the U.S. Department of Education.