American Sign Language Lesson Plans

Students identify key people and facts about the American Sign Language. In this American Sign Language activity, students discuss the ASL language visit the ASL website. Students answer questions for a worksheet on the topic.

Students explore communication by researching the web. In this sign language lesson, students discuss the importance of signing and practice signing each letter of the alphabet with classmates. Students utilize computers and Internet to further research American sign language.

Tenth graders use consumer skills needed as an adult. It serves as a framework for learning the basics of American Sign Language (ASL) classifiers. They make use of digital video recording equipment to record skits and conversations.

Students examine deaf culture and the role that American Sign Language plays in forging a sense of community.

Have a discussion, review nouns, and practice speaking using ASL. Lesson 18 of 30+ extensive lessons on using American Sign Language covers classifiers, coded English, and asking questions. Each link embedded in the lesson provides a visual aide so you sign what you say correctly. 

Twelfth graders explore some of the colonial implications of The Tempest, analyzing how language and power interrelate in the play and using another American voice, American Sign Language, to consider the different forms of communication available to Caliban before the arrival of Prospero.

Students discuss American Sign Language. They work in pairs to review the fingerspelling alphabet and to spell a few common words. In addition. they work with a partner to practice signs for 10 different words related to a selected topic and perform a piece that uses those 10 signs.

Students practice and examine the different types of sign languages. They explore the need for a simplified system of signing. They compare the simplified version with American sign language. They also practice with another signing technique.

Students complete activities for deaf awareness and to explore deaf culture, the American Sign Language, and Deaf pride. In this deaf awareness lesson, students view PowerPoint presentations about the topic, explore websites for the American Sign Language, compose a letter to a history textbook company, write stories using the ASL, and complete a survey experiment.

Students use the correct sign for the five WH question words with the appropriate facial expression to accurately form questions in ASL.