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...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: Ology: Express Yourself
Test your skill at reading the emotion expressed in a face in these two matching games.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Science Buddies
Science Buddies: Testing How Fashion Impacts the Behavior of Others Around Us
There's an old saying that "the clothes make the man" (or woman, we're quick to add nowadays). How true do you think this is? Here's a project with one approach for finding out.
Other
Centervention: Body Language Activities Using Telephone Game
In this activity, students will play the game of "Telephone" in two different ways. Students will first play "Telephone" with the traditional version of the the game and then only communicate via their body language.
Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Boundless Communications: Interaction in Public Speaking
This lesson focuses on interacting with your audience when delivering a presentation including direct questions and answers and body language.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Seed House
Young scholars will communicate in oral, artistic, written and nonverbal form as they study seeds and their growth. Students will plant seeds, make observations about the seeds' growth, and report their observations to peers .
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Storytelling in the Classroom
There are several steps to becoming a storyteller. Find out what they are and be on your way to becoming a storyteller here! Learn how to find good stories to tell, and how to tell them to an audience effectively.
Understood For All
Understood: How to Help Your Child Understand Body Language
This article provides tips on how teach children to pick up on social cues.
Other
Kiddle Encyclopedia: Body Language Facts for Kids
This resource provide a list of common types of body language. Each type of body language is described.
Other
The Responsive Counselor: Body Language and Tone of Voice Lesson Plan
This blog post from shares several activities that will help students understand how to interpret voice tone and body language.
Other
Univ. Of Bielefeld: Facial Expression and Eye Behaviour
This site from the University of Bielefeld provides an outline of information about the history of face-reading, links to studies on facial expression, a list of common saying concerning facial expressions, and other useful information.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
Curated OER
Carnegie Mellon: Facial Expression Analysis
Introduces facial expression and the steps to understanding what the expressions mean. Includes pictures and links.
California Academy of Sciences
California Academy of Sciences: Facial Expressions
Are facial expressions learned or innate? [2:58]
Other
Ward Green and Hill Associates: Body Language: Making a Good First Impression
Slideshow that explains how body language affects and influences others. Gives you information on how to make a good first impression.
Other
Story Arts:storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas
Use this site to get students interested in and enthusiastic about storytelling with these cool lesson ideas. Look through these short descriptions of lesson ideas to help develop a lesson to fit your classroom needs.
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Autistic Spectrum Disorders: Sorting It Out
Written by a teaching and practicing pediatric neurologist, this lengthy but very readable article surveys the disorders now gathered under the "Autistic Spectrum Disorders."