ASE: High School Diploma

Students will respond to a scenario by composing a professional email. This lesson can be a precursor to lessons involving research or extensive writing. 

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Canva helps students create mind maps online. They can then share them with others and add them to presentations. This tool is great for brainstorming collaboratively. In this activity students use mind maps to organize or scaffold information for getting a job. 

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

In this activity, students answer the VARK Learning Style online questionnaire’s 16 questions to measure their learning style preferences in these areas: Visual (V), Aural/Auditory (A), Reading/Writing (R), and Kinesthetic (K) – see descriptions at VARK Modalities page http://www.vark-learn.com/english/page.asp?p=categories in order to find their preferred learning styles and their weaker study habit. The inventory’s focus is on study habits and skills more than personality traits, and there are “help sheets” that explain to students how to develop their less-preferred learning modalities.

This site has many good ideas on study skills for your students. It covers everything from note-taking, remembering, and how to read a difficult book, to writing term papers. It might be a good place to send students at the beginning of the year.

Screenshot of Virginia Tech's list of Study Skills Self-Help Information

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Have students introduce themselves to the class by making a personalized avatar with text-to-speech or with their own voices.