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People Puzzles

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice using proper communication and cooperation skills.
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Communicating with "I Messages", Part 2

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders listen to ways they share their feelings with others. After brainstorming situations where "I messages" would be appropriate, pairs of students write messages from the lists they developed. They discuss how their messages...
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Getting Adults and Children to Talk

For Teachers K - Higher Ed
Students engage in activities to practice their speaking skills. They role play, tell stories, use puppets and props, play games and solve puzzles. They sing songs and use rhymes to practice repetition. They read and respond to articles...
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A Rewarding Endeavor

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Young scholars develop a survey to find out if people would return an envelope of money they found. Include options for giving it to the police, advertising for the one who lost it. Students place their research in a feature article that...
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Monsters, Monsters, Monsters

For Teachers K - 3rd
Young scholars are introduced to how to use the internet and send emails. In groups, they work together to send emails to other students around the world. To end the lesson, they read their emails to the class and respond to their...
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Lonely Heart

For Teachers 5th - 10th
Pupils play a game to improve non-verbal communication skills. They each place a playing card on their forehead without looking at the suit then they must form groups of the same suit without speaking. They reflect on the process and...
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You Know, Jack

For Students 3rd - 6th
Increase communication skills, especially among your ESL population, with this activity. Get children up and out of their seats asking clarifying questions about their hypothetical friend "Jack." A chart categorizes questions into "last...
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Lecture 6 - Oral Interpretation - Verse

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students discuss how oral interpretation varies with prose and poetry. They select a piece of prose or poetry to present to the class, and then assess each other on the organization and delivery of their speech as well as on their...
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Leaflets and Posters

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Provide your class with a simple overview of the use of leaflets and posters. Within this presentation, there is a list of tips for creating informative and easy-to-read text and a slide with examples of this type of writing. This could...
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Language and Cognition

For Students 12th - Higher Ed
In tnis psychology activity, learners complete 10 multiple choice questions on the stages of language acquisition and cognition.
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Language and Cognition

For Students 11th - Higher Ed
In this psychology worksheet, students complete 5 short short answer review questions on language and cognition. They explain when a form communication is considered a language.
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"Ode to the West Wind" Theme of Language and Communication

For Students 9th - 11th
In this "Ode to the West Wind" activity, students discuss the speaker's concern that his ideas will die with him. Students answer three questions about the poet's plea to the West Wind to take his ideas and spread them throughout the world.
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Hector's World: Details, Details

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Learners discover what forms of personal information are alright to share online. In this Internet safety instructional activity, students discuss how they must be careful with personal information when they are online. Learners complete...
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The Invention of the Telephone

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students study the history of the telephone and its inventor.  In this communications instructional activity students complete a tuning fork experiment to further demonstrate how sound is produced.
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Explore, Analyze and Imagine: The Importance of Body Language

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students develop characters and role-play. In this character portrayal lesson, students analyze the importance of body language, develop a character to portray and interview another students character.
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Sexual Exploitation: Day 1: Communication

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students research and practice communication skills as assertiveness and listening in terms of sexual exploitation. In this communication lesson plan, students practice skills in 2 person teams.
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Abstinence

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify positive reasons why people choose to practice abstinence and complete communication that is successful in this practice. In this abstinence lesson plan, students view videos and fill out worksheets provided.
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Communication 5: Defending Your Rights

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students role play situations where they communicate and defend themselves. In this communication lesson plan, students defend their rights by being assertive.
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Sexually Transmitted Diseases

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore the issue of sexually transmitted diseases and discover that someone may have an STD with no symptoms. In this sexually transmitted diseases lesson, students complete a worksheet as a large group. Students discuss how...
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Learning to Listen

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Learners examine communication and how to be a better listener.  In this social skills activity students complete several listening exercises.
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Rusted Roots

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers create a flowchart on the root cause method. In this inquiry lesson plan, students compare RCA and the DMAIC model with the scientific method of problem solving. They investigate a problem in school and present their...
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Ready, Set, Action

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Young scholars identify propaganda techniques used in commercials created by their classmates. In this active listening lesson, students use the provided scoring guide to evaluate commercials that their classmates made that feature...
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Applied Science - Built Environment Pre Lab (Morse Code)

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students study communication. In this telegraph lesson, students examine Morse code and the composition of an elementary telegraph circuit. They listen to a presentation and try to create Morse Code messages on a worksheet. This lesson...
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Picture This

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students create a descriptive paragraph about their past or their heritage and provide a picture to go along with it. In this past and heritage lesson plan, students share their paragraph with the class.