AdLit
Ad lit.org: Escritura Basada en Los Estandares Para Estudiantes Ell
Escribir es comunicacion, creatividad y colaboracion. Escribir es un proceso social para los estudiantes ELL, igual que para cualquier otro escritor. Para los estudiantes que estan aprendiendo ingles lograr el equilibrio entre escribir...
University of South Florida
Fcat: The Shadow Knows (Ratio, Proportion & Measurement)
Pupils use their height and the length of the shadow to determine the height of buildings. A great outdoor activity to learn about proportions and ratios.
Great Idea Finder
The Great Idea Finder: Invention of the Telephone
The Great Idea Finder provides information on the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell and its history throughout the years. Links to other sites with information are provided.
Cynthia J. O'Hora
Mrs. O's House: School Handbook Presentation
Reflecting on Avi's book, Nothing But the Truth A Documentary Novel, classrooms will review and consider protocol in understanding the school's handbook, policies, and how these are communicated to the student body.
PBS
Pbs Lesson Plan (Affluenza): Advertising in Schools
Should companies be allowed to advertise in schools? In this lesson, pupils examine this question, evaluating whether corporate advertising in the school setting is appropriate. The lesson is presented uses an integrated approach,...
Other
A Beginner's Guide to Effective Email
Informative site offering a comprehensive definition of e-mail and its uses. Also covers formatting, page layout, gestures, formalities, intonations, and greeting and signatures used in e-mailing.
Other
Pstcc: Four Principles of Interpersonal Communication
Discusses four inevitable components of interpersonal communication. These principles occur in real interpersonal interaction and are basic to communication.
University of Pennsylvania
U Penn Library: Dreiser's Critical Reputation
A scholarly paper on Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" and the problem of using words to communicate as opposed to tone and other non-verbal means.
ReachOut USA
Reach Out Usa: Talking to Your Family
ReachOut fact sheets are written by young people for young people and edited by a mental health professional. This page discusses the pros and cons of talking to family members about your problems.
PBS
Pbs News Hour: Vanishing Verbs
Ever noticed how tv news reporting sounds so different from conversation and from academic writing? Explore this topic with your students using the resources and plans at this site. Handouts, discussion questions and vocabulary practice...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Scientific American: The Frontiers Decade: Medical Decade
Explore the challenges of communicating without speaking or moving by creating a communications board from plastic alphabet letters. Explore speech synthesis files for people with communication disabilities.
Other
Cyberwriter: Descriptive Writing
Resource gives writing activities leveled K-1st grade, 2nd & 3rd grades and 4th through 8th grades.
Other
Odyssey of the Mind Curriculum Activity: Understanding Misunderstandings
Provided are three activities that help students develop communication skills by using creative experimentation.
Daily Teaching Tools
Daily Teaching Tools: Good Listening in Class
This Daily Teaching Tools resource provides an efficient listening tool. Students will be able to listen more effectively by following steps provided on this resource.
New York Times
New York Times: Cellphones Catapult Rural Africa
Read about how cellphone technology is drastically changing life in remote villages of South Africa. Click on link for classroom lesson plan.
American Forum for Global Education
American Forum for Global Education: Talking With Our Hands
This lesson from the American Forum for Global Education is designed to help children understand that using hands to "convey messages" is a form of communication.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Internal and External Filters: Lesson 2
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand that a range of internal and external filters may alter or obscure a given coded message. It is 2 of 3 in the series titled "Internal and External Filters."
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Coaxial Cable 1929
As more and more American households acquired telephones, the pressure was on to create a better cable to accommodate the increasing demand. Engineers Lloyd Espenschied and Herman Affel answered the call.
TES Global
Blendspace: Nonverbal Communication
In this TES Blendspace, students will have access to nine resources that will help them learn about nonverbal communication.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: The Communication Process 101: Lesson 3
At the end of this tutorial, the learner will understand the general process underlying communication. It is 3 of 4 in the series titled "The Communication Process 101."
Other
Work 911: Basic Negotiating Tips
Site provides an excellent article, including an overview to the concept of negotiation, barriers to negotiation, and several useful tips for how to successfully negotiate. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Social Challenges
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart promotes social development and mental health as students explore appropriate responses to challenging social situations. Students will practice getting what they need in a social situation.
Other
Wabash College: Introduction to Network Etiquette
This site from Wabash College gives rules not only for internet etiquette, but more specifically for etiquette concerning networks. This site is particularly relevant to college students.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Tomie De Paola's Biography
This resource features a booklist for Tomie dePaola. There is a summary and a picture of each book.