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CCR Anchor 6: Acquire and use accurately a range of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases sufficient for reading, writing, speaking, and listening at the college and career readiness level; demonstrate independence in gathering vocabulary knowledge when encountering a word or phrase important to comprehension or expression.

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1. Animoto: Vocabulary

Activity Description

Animoto Vocabulary Template
Source: Animoto Vocabulary Template (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
  1.  Using Animoto, assign one term or item on a vocabulary list to individual students or small groups to make slideshows that can be posted on a Web page.
  2. Use the built-in music choices or upload music (must be an mp3 audio file). Among Animoto's built-in music choices are Top 40, Indie Rock, Electronica, HipHop, Latin, Jazz, Classical, Country, and others submitted by musicians.
  3. Add images and choose special effects.
Animoto is free for making 30-second videos if you request an Educational account when you register. Other Animoto accounts are paid, but you can get a free one-year account for 50 students. Go to the Web Site URL listed below. Scroll down to "Are you a teacher?" You can reapply each year.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
2. Chapter 2: Health-Asking Questions and Giving Answers to a Doctor

Activity Description

Health and Safety for Beginning Adult Learners
Source: C-K12 (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
This is Chapter 2 of a four chapter OER book. You can review the lesson plan for Chapter 1 here.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High
3. Chapter 4: Health History Forms

Activity Description

Health and Safety for Beginning Adult Learners
Source: Pixabay (License: CC0/Public Domain)
Students will learn about completing a health history form. This is one 4in a 4 unit text created using the CK-12 Website.
 

Has EEE Lesson Plan

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High
4. Conservation Biology: Claim your Species Presentation

Activity Description

Brown Turtle Swimming Underwater
Source: Unsplash by Wexor TMG (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
In this lesson, students practice listening comprehension with a video, discuss, and read about endangered species and efforts to prevent their extinction. The culminating assignment is a presentation about an endangered species.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
5. Creating a Personality Poem with Positive Adjectives

Activity Description

Word Cloud
Source: https://www.wordclouds.com/ (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

Students will create a Personality Poem along with a word cloud which is uploaded to Padlet and commented on by others.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All Levels, Intermediate, High
6. Environmental Conservation Project

Activity Description

Pollution
Source: Pixabay by Sergei Tokmakov (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Students engage in conversation about the environment, practice listening comprehension by watching a video and answering questions, read an article about the harm of plastics on the environment, brainstorm ways to preserve the natural environment, write a paragraph, and create an inforgraphic based on their ideas.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
7. Fast Food Nutrition: Should Fast Food Have Warning Labels?

Activity Description

Burger
Source: Pixabay by Patricia Maine Degrave (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
In this project, students discuss and evaluate their eating habits and the positives and negatives of fast food, search the internet for information about ingredients and food labels, evaluate a menu item they purchase at fast food restaurants and present an alternative healthier option, and finally compose a paragraph about their opinion on the topic of warning labels for fast food.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, Low, Intermediate, High
8. GED Practice Test from 4Tests

Activity Description

4Tests
Source: 4Tests GED Practice Test page (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

A free online practice test site for the 2014 GED test with the 4 sections of the GED provided by Barrons Educational Series. It includes an explanation for the right answer.

 

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Program Areas

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

Levels

High
9. Generate and Describe a Dream Room with AI

Activity Description

PaintIt Room
Source: PaintIt (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
Students apply their learning of housing vocabulary by designing, describing, and presenting a dream room.
 
 
 
 

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High
10. Google Arts and Culture: Wonders of the World Project

Activity Description

Machu Picchu
Source: Unsplash by Natalie Pedigo (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 

Intermediate and advanced students learn about ancient and modern wonders of the world using the online information on the Google Arts and Culture site and other Web sites and then and share what they learn in a jigsaw reading/cooperative learning activity. As an optional follow-up, write a paragraph and/or make an oral presentation about a wonder of the world of their choosing (a museum, building, sculpture, statue, bridge, canal, dam, temple, church, cathedral, castle, or natural wonder or a UNESCO World Heritage Site) located in their native countries or elsewhere.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced
11. Google's Applied Digital Skills

Activity Description

Home page for Applied Digital Skills
Source: Applied Digital Skills (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

In this series of video lessons, students learn how to use Google Slides in making a personal introduction presentation to the class. 

Applied Digital Skills is a free curriculum designed to help students learn digital skills while using them in practical life applications like budgeting, planning an event, or writing. It is video-based and easy to use.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Diploma, CTE: Career Technical Education

Levels

Intermediate, High, All Levels, Intermediate High, Advanced
12. NPR "This I Believe": Careers - "Do What you Love"

Activity Description

Tony Hawk
Source: This I Believe: Do What You Love by NPR (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

Use the essays from the NPR Radio program to create speaking/conversation activities, vocabulary learning exercises, listening (main ideas, cloze, details, etc.) activities, and follow up with extension activities in which students speak or write about themselves.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

Intermediate High, Advanced, Low, Intermediate, High, All Levels
13. Planning a Weekend or Day Trip with Low Carbon Footprint using AI

Activity Description

Car
Source: Pixabay by StockSnap (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
In this lesson, students plan a sustainable day or weekend trip itinerary and analyze their carbon footprint for the excursion.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
14. Quizlet Live

Activity Description

Quizlet Live
Source: Quizlet Live by Quizlet Live (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

Quizlet Live is a collaborative, high-energy review game. It's based on Quizlet, the online flashcards platform that's been around for years. Students are sorted into groups and work together to answer all 12 questions correctly in a row to win.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, CTE: Career Technical Education, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

Beginning Literacy, Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced, All Levels
15. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Family Relationships

Activity Description

The Family
Source: Tip Kai by Tip Kai (License: Creative Commons 1.0)

This activity uses prerecorded authentic conversation in which Carl meets Pancho. Pre- and post-listening activities are provided along with immediate feedback on comprehension exercises.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low
16. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Ordering a Pizza

Activity Description

Pizza
 

This activity uses prerecorded authentic conversation in which a caller wants to order a pizza. Pre- and post-listening activities are provided along with immediate feedback on comprehension exercises.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
17. Teaching listening and speaking with Mote

Activity Description

Mote Extension
Source: Screenshot of Mote extension (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

Mote is a Chrome Extension that makes it easy for anyone to add voice notes and feedback to documents, assignments, and emails.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ABE: Adult Basic Education, ASE: High School Diploma

Levels

All Levels
18. TV411: Reading Medicine Labels

Activity Description

Reading Medicine Labels: bottle with a magnifying glass over the instructions
Source: TV411: Reading Medicine Labels (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

This activity includes a video, printable worksheet, and online Web lesson on reading medicine labels.

TV411's mission is to help adults gain the basic reading, writing, math, and science skills they need to achieve their educational, career, and personal goals. They create educationally sound and entertaining multimedia learning materials and distribute them through television, the Internet, and literacy and community-based programs across the country. TV411 is a project of the Learning and Teaching Division of the Education Development Center, a non-profit organization that addresses challenges in education, health and economic development.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language, ABE: Adult Basic Education, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Low, Intermediate, High
19. United States Dept. of Agriculture: Choose My Plate - The 5 Food Groups

Activity Description

My plate
Source: MyPlate (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

In this activity, students identify foods and categorize them according to food group, discuss the MyPlate image, draw a MyPlate image showing how much of each food group they typically eat, write sentences about their eating habits and what they should change, compare their eating habits with other students, and research key consumer messages for each of the food groups on the ChooseMyPlate Web site.

This activity aims to develop student understanding of healthy, balanced eating and provides practice of basic food vocabulary, the present simple tense, comparatives (more than/less than), and the modal "should."

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
20. University of Wisconsin: Parade of Games in PowerPoint

Activity Description

 

Screenshot of website showing different PowerPoint Games that teach.
Source: https://sites.google.com/a/uww.edu/jonesd/home/games (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 

These PowerPoint game templates can be downloaded from the site and customized with vocabulary from your course content. The files include hyperlinks (hot spots that, when selected, go from one slide—such as a question slide—to another slide, such as a correct or incorrect answer slide).

With Word Jumble, learners are given a word taken from topics from the course content. The word is jumbled, and participants must reflect on course content in order to be able to un-jumble the word.

With Flash Cards, learners connect definitions with keywords or concepts. A definition is shown to the learners and they must make the correct association of the definition to the word or concept it defines. The games can be used as team competitions for vocabulary teaching review and reinforcement.

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Program Areas

ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

All Levels
21. Untold History: Artifacts and Writing about a Personal Artifact

Activity Description

Untold Screenshot
Source: Untold History (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
In this lesson plan, students learn what an artifact is, learn about a national artifact, read about the place of artifacts in history and their importance, and then write about an important personal artifact.
 
This assignment is inspired by the Global Oneness Student Photography Contest - Artifacts in our Lives, online at https://www.globalonenessproject.org/stories/student-project-artifacts-our-lives.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Intermediate, High, Intermediate High, Advanced
22. Using AI Chatbots to Create Healthy Meal Recommendations

Activity Description

Vegetable and Meat on a Bowl
Source: Unsplash by Anh Nguyen (License: CC0/Public Domain)
 
By the end of this lesson, adult English language learners will be able to effectively utilize a large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT to generate recommendations for healthy meals given three ingredients. They will work in small groups to choose the best meal option and justify their choice.

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Program Areas

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

Levels

Beginning Low, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Intermediate, High
23. Virtual Model Presentation

Activity Description

Wardrobe
Source: Pixabay by congerdesign (License: CC0/Public Domain)

 

Students describe clothing in a prepared oral presentation and explain how an outfit is appropriate for a particular event or situation.

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Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
24. Word Clouds for Pre-Reading Predictions and Post-Reading Summarization

Activity Description

Free Word Cloud Generator
 
Source: Free Word Cloud Generator by Free Word Cloud Generator (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])
 
Create a word cloud for a text to be read in class for pre-reading (vocabulary preparation, predictions) and post-reading summarization. Word clouds make repeated words appear larger.

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Program Areas

ABE: Adult Basic Education, ESL: English as a Second Language, ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation, ASE: High School Diploma, AwD: Adults with Disabilities

Levels

All Levels, Beginning High, Intermediate Low, Intermediate High, Advanced
25. Randall's ESL Cyber Listening Lab: Leaving a Message

Activity Description

This activity uses prerecorded authentic conversation in which a caller wants to leave a message for someone who is not there. Pre- and post-listening activities are provided along with immediate feedback on comprehension exercise.

Program Areas

ESL: English as a Second Language

Levels

Beginning High, Intermediate Low
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