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341. U.S. Food & Drug Administration: Make Your Calories Count-Use the Nutrition Facts Label for Healthy Weight Management

Activity Description

In this activity, students are introduced to the nutrition facts label through the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) interactive learning program "Make Your Calories Count." For simplicity, the program presents two nutrients that should be limited (saturated fat and sodium) and two nutrients that should be consumed in adequate amounts (fiber and calcium). Students learn, then apply the concepts in a fun and interactive way.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
342. urVoice: Personalized Audio Visual Dictionary (Mobile App)

Activity Description

Have students use this text to speech app with augmentative and alternative communication with type and talk capabilities to create personalized picture dictionaries with images and audio.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low
343. urVoice: Personalized audio visual phrase list (Mobile App)

Activity Description

Have students use this text to speech app with augmentative and alternative communication with type and talk capabilities to create personalized phrase lists with audio and optional images.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
344. USA Learns, English 1 Plus!

Activity Description

USA Learns First English Course is a complete online course for beginning-low intermediate ESL students. It includes integrated activities for Reading, Writing, Listening and Speaking with grammar, lifes and citizenship skills.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low
345. Using English for Academic Purposes: Academic Writing

Activity Description

The comprehensive guide has readings with some integrated exercises that include an introduction to academic writing, the process, questions, research, organization, functions, paragraphs, plagiarism, reporting, genres, reference, citation, punctuation, spelling, features of academic writing, a check list, and multiple interactive exercises to apply all. Assign students whose goal is transitioning to higher education to work through the guide independently, assign specific parts, or use specific sections in class to prepare students for the demands of academic writing in college and university. Use the sample exercise when teaching students how to identify and write topic sentences for paragraphs.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Advanced
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OTAN activities are funded by contract CN220124 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.