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Lesson
Plans | Online Learning Activities
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.
 (Here
it is!) http://www.literacynet.org/cnnsf/
Lessons from today's headlines!
Archives are available
Literacy
in Cyberspace - Technology in the Adult Education Classroom
Over 50 different lesson plans
covering topics from Life Insurance to the Cold War.
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.
Online
Learning Activities
http://school.newsweek.com
This Newsweek Education section is similar to the Time
website in that teachers and learners can use current and past
issues of this magazine to discuss hot topics in our country
and the world.
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://pw1.netcom.com/~kellerq/chembal1/default.htm
Chembalancer is an online game to teach balancing equations.
You type numbers in front of each molecule until there are the
same number of atoms on both sides of the equation, then click
the ‘Balanced’ button.
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.
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/4116/Investing/stock.htm
The Stock Game
The Stock Game is a free online stock market simulation for Grades
5–12. Students nationwide play in individual or buddy contests
year-round, and teams of two to three students participate in
the Fall and Spring Stocks That Rock! competition. The Web
site contains lessons, lesson plans, a glossary, and more than
75 lesson starter activities. These activities are correlated
to NCTM, NCSS, NCEE and ISTE standards. The site also contains
research tools from REUTERS, CNN Interactive and Hoover’s Online.
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/site_sum.html?tname=50048&url=50048/
By the Great Horn Spoon: A Gold Rush Adventure
This is an excellent companion resource for teaching "The Great
Horn Spoon" by Sid Fleishmann. The text is available in
English and Spanish. You can take a journey with the
main character following the route on an image map, visit San
Francisco and join a miner in gold country. Also available
are great classroom activities. Lesson plans on writing
and links to other Gold Rush web sites.
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