Lessons and Activities
GED Beyond the Basics Lesson Plans
This book includes twenty-four lesson plans. Eight plans have been developed for each of the following academic areas: mathematics, writing, and reading. The Florida GED: Beyond the Basics lesson plans provide the teacher with a beginning step to implementing the pedagogy that supports the Florida GED: Beyond the Basics model.
http://www.edhelper.com
An excellent website that allows you to create lots of free
worksheets. It is divided by grade level and has an excellent
vocabulary builder section. This is good material that can
be sent home with students who don't have a lot of in class
time. It could be used for GED, ABE or ESL depending on
the grade level you choose.
Marco Polo-
Internet for the Classroom
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/index.aspx
MarcoPolo: Internet Content for the Classroom is a consortium
of premier national education organizations, state education
agencies and the MarcoPolo Education Foundation dedicated
to providing the highest quality Internet content and professional
development to teachers and students throughout the United
States. Great Lesson Plans!
http://webquest.org
The Official Webquest website. Online inquiry-based projects
for K-12 and adult students.
http://literacy.kent.edu/eureka/index2.html
This resource for adult basic education instructors will
allow you to search the Eureka! lesson database by topic
or program type and discover lessons that have been used
successfully by ABLE instructors with their students.
http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
Lessons from today's
headlines! Archives are available
Ask ERIC Lesson
Plans
http://www.eduref.org/
Loads of lessons!
http://az-aall.org/AALL/Pages/AALLInternetLessonLinks.htm
Links to good K-12
sites that include lesson plans that can be easily adapted
to any adult education basic skills, GED, or ESOL class.
The
Circle of Learning
Four cross-curricular lessons developed by the GED Direct
Training Project from St. John's River Community College.
Florida
GED Online Lessons
Link here to
access 200 online lessons designed to help teachers prepare
students for GED 2002.
ESOL
Lesson Plans
A vast array of FANTASTIC
lessons. The wait has been worth it!
http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/resources/teacher.html
Within this section, you will find three teacher lesson
plans adaptable for K-12 classrooms. These lesson plans
� complete with activities, discussion ideas, and literary
resources � offer creative ideas for teaching the concept
of life beyond Earth in the classroom.
http://puzzlemaker.school.discovery.com/
Puzzlemaker from Discovery.com
Help reinforce learning by creating and printing out puzzles
for students to complete. This site is great for teachers!
http://www.childrensmuseum.org/cosmicquest/spacestation/index2.html
Living in Space: Designing a Space Station
This wonderful online game is perfect for students past
the 4th grade reading level. What is it? Living
in Space is an online game that explores the idea of living
in space. What do humans need in order to live in
this hostile environment? What do we need to work
and thrive in space? By designing a space station,
you (the user or the student)] examines a series of problems:
How will you breath? What will you eat? How
will you produce power? While choosing the best
solution for each problem, you learn how NASA and the
Russian space agency have designed life support systems
for their spacecraft, while gaining an appreciation for
the Earth's
environment and the many ways that it provides the things
that we need to survive.
http://www.lemonadestandgame.com/
Lemonade Stand is a classic game that teaches the basics
about how supply and demand effect business.
In this game, it is your job to run a street-corner lemonade
stand and to try to make some money doing it.
Your business decisions affect supply and demand, and therefore,
your profitability.
http://www.essaypunch.com/
Essaypunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing
a short essay. Users develop an idea and write
their own short essay, consisting of an introduction, a
two-to-three paragraph body and a conclusion. Program
prompts guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing,
organizing, editing, rewriting and publishing.
http://www.businessletterpunch.com/
Businessletterpunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing
a business letter. Users go through the process of constructing
a letter they would write in a business environment.
Steps to a finished letter include pre-writing, writing,
organizing, editing, rewriting and publishing. Completed
business letters can be transferred to a word processing
program, HTML editor or e-mail application.
http://www.paragraphpunch.com/
Paragraphpunch.com
This web site takes users through the actual steps of writing
a basic paragraph. Users develop an idea and write their
own topic sentence, body and conclusion. Program prompts
guide users step by step through pre-writing, writing, organizing,
editing, rewriting and publishing. Completed paragraphs
can be transferred to a word processing program, HTML editor
or e-mail application.
http://www.meritquizcenter.com/
Merit Quiz Center
The quizzes on this web site are designed to improve reading
comprehension, build vocabulary and sharpen grammar skills.
The grammar, vocabulary, and writing quizzes give the user
a quick assessment of eight basic skill questions.
The ESL reading quizzes have six questions. The other
reading quizzes have three texts with six questions per
text. They give the user an assessment of three basic
reading skills.