Poynter Institute
Poynter Institute: Ten Copy Editor Traits That Guarantee Your Success
Sooner or later you may function as a copy editor for yourself or for another. Follow these tips to enrich your writing.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Introducing Practical Speaking Skills
If you really speak WELL, people will love to listen! In this lesson, students will practice routines to help them speak audibly and express thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly. Teaching this in the first weeks of school sets...
Donald Clark
Big Dog, Little Dog: Communication and Leadership
Wide-spread approach to communication and leadership. A study of the power of communication and its help or hindrances to a person's leadership qualities.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Helping Young Children Express Themselves
We know that communication is central to the learning process. Communication can be specifically linked to the expanding skills of listening and speaking, as children connect to the reading and writing behaviors that characterize early...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Strategy Guide: Peer Review
This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.
Education.com
Education.com: Peer Conferencing 101
[Free Registration/Login Required] At the completion of this lesson, students will be able to use the peer conference format to provide feedback to a peer.
Other
Victoria State Government: Sociodramatic Play (Interacting With Others)
Sociodramatic play is where children act out imaginary situations and stories, become different characters, and pretend they are in different locations and times. Sociodramatic play is the most advanced form of play, and constantly...
Other
Better Attitudes & Skills in Children
This is a collection of social emotional lesson plans. They were developed by the Project B.A.S.I.C. Child Development Specialist, and Child Care Consultation Staff via the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services.
PBS
Pbs: Hedy Lamarr: Securing Wireless Communications Through Frequency Changes
Discover Hedy Lamarr's contributions as a woman in STEM in this two video media gallery from the American Masters film Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story. Learn how Lamarr invented frequency hopping, the basis of secure wireless...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: American Masters Collection: Hedy Lamarr
Major support for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This is a collection of four video lessons about Hedy Lamarr including her acting career and her inventions. Teaching materials are included.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Primary Source Set: Telephone Invention
This collection uses primary sources to explore the invention of the telephone.
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Ucar: Tracking Hurricane News
Young scholars read news articles about Hurricane Irene, present information with classmates, and construct a timeline to describe the hurricane's story over time and across geographic area, exploring what happened, how people were...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Friends & Neighbors Packet: Pre K and K
Use these friends & neighbors-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Summer Camp: Fill Each Day With Possibilities! Back to School Packet: Pre K and K
Use these back to school-themed activity sheets to allow children to choose their own learning adventures.
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Principles of Digital Communications I
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the theory and practices in digital communications. Webpage includes twenty-four lectures from a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lectures vary...
US Department of Labor
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Writers and Editors
This is from the U.S. Occupational Outlook Handbook. It provides a profile of the writing and editing careers, including information on working conditions, employment opportunities, qualifications, job outlook, and earnings.
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Numb3 Rs: Close Encounters
Based off of the hit television show NUMB3RS, this lesson has students explore how "closely connected" a network structure is. Framed in the context of a terrorist cell, students must find which setups would allow organizations to still...
The Dirksen Congressional Center
Congress for Kids: Citizenship: Communicating in Communities
You will discover many opportunities to enrich your own life and to appreciate your differences from other members of a community as you improve your ability to communicate. You, your family, and your friends can become good citizens and...
Creative Science Centre
Creative Science Centre: A Portable Shortwave Rx Loop Antenna
A simple portable antenna is described that gives good radio reception on the main shortwave bands.
Other
Federal Communications Commission: Major Initiatives
This site from the FCC gives information on the main focus of the Federal Communication Commission. They are responsible for most forms of communication.
PBS
Pbs: American Experience: The Telephone Goes National
This site provides information about the birth of the telephone. The site also discusses AT&T, the first long distance phone call, and the people involved.
Rick Beach
Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition: Chapter 7: Activities
The textbook entitled Teaching Literature to Adolescents, 2nd Edition contains activities for Chapter 7 reflection. Intended for teachers, this site contains activities that will extend the content from the Chapter 7. Focus of the...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Can Plants Talk to Each Other?
Can plants talk to each other? It certainly doesn't seem that way: They don't have complex sensory or nervous systems, like animals do, and they look pretty passive. But odd as it sounds, plants can communicate with each...
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Aphasia: The Disorder That Makes You Lose Your Words
Susan Wortman-Jutt details a disorder called aphasia, which can impair all aspects of communication. [5:10]