Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: Barriers to Critical Thinking: Errors in Judgment

For Students 9th - 10th
Users of this learning module will explore the Errors in Judgment: Barriers to Critical Thinking and how it affects their decision-making processes.
Lesson Plan
Lumen Learning

Lumen: Boundless Communications: Barriers to Listening

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This lesson plan focuses on barriers to listening including cultural differences, gender, and technological distractions.
Lesson Plan
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Rock & Roll Hall of Fame: Sti Lesson 16: Barriers in Communications

For Teachers 9th - 10th
From Robert Frost's 'Mending Wall' to Pink Floyd's 'The Wall,' humankind erects and maintains real and symbolic barriers to protect and defend opposing stances, beliefs and territories. Examples of real walls in history have been the...
Handout
Biz Move

Biz Move: Overcoming Communication Barriers How to Overcome Noise in Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Discusses communication barriers, particularly in the work environment, and examines how to overcome them. Barriers discussed include noise, faulty feedback, poor media selection, mental barriers, poor word selection, time and space...
Article
Other

Inter Link: Achieving Effectiveness Through Team Communication

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article discusses how to achieve better team communication. Lists the components of team communication along with barriers to effective communication. Also provides a section on feedback. SL.9-10.1d Possitive Communication Stratagies,...
Article
Other

Gov Loop: Tips and Resources: Creating Accessible Digital Communication

For Students 9th - 10th
With the massive shift to virtual work and education, it has become crucial that we strive to make all the content we put online accessible, particularly to people with disabilities who often experience barriers to accessing content....
Unit Plan
Wisc-Online

Wisc Online: How to Listen Better

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students read a description of what it means to listen respectively. Then they write a brief action plan for becoming a better listener.
Handout
Other

Rmit University: Rmit Counselling Service: Talking to People [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This material on people skills discusses how to develop and maintain people skills. It also contains a section in the middle about the importance of receiving messages (listening) and common barriers to doing so.
Website
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Cross Cultural Communication Strategies

For Students 9th - 10th
The keys to effective cross-cultural communication is discussed. Examples are given.
Article
Other

Dean and Laura Vandruff: Conversational Terrorism

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This humorous essay arms you against a host of "conversation terrorist" techniques. Learn to interpret phrases that are meant to keep you quiet, change the subject, or throw you off track in your conversation. SL.9-10.3 Eval...
eBook
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: Globalization

For Students 9th - 10th
Reduced barriers to trade and communication across international boundaries have changed politics, culture, and economics across the globe.
Article
Other

Work 911: Basic Negotiating Tips

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
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
Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: English Language Arts: Grade 5: Wonderstruck

For Teachers 5th Standards
Fifth graders learn about the importance of language, education, and communication. By determining how characters respond to challenges of language barriers and ineffective communication, 5th graders learn how language and stories can...
Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: How Interpreters Juggle Two Languages at Once

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Language is complex, and when abstract or nuanced concepts get lost in translation, the consequences may be catastrophic. Given the complexities of language and cultural exchange, how do these epic miscommunications not happen all the...
Lesson Plan
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: The Bouba Kiki Effect

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
It may be possible for certain symbolic characteristics, like sharpness and roundedness, to cross language barriers. In this experiment you will investigate the Bouba-Kiki Effect to find out if abstract visual properties can be linked to...
Graphic
Curated OER

Unesco: Turkmenistan: Parthian Fortresses of Nisa

For Students 9th - 10th
The Parthian Fortresses of Nisa consist of two tells of Old and New Nisa, indicating the site of one of the earliest and most important cities of the Parthian Empire, a major power from the mid 3rd century BC to the 3rd century AD. They...
Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: South China, 1971

For Students 9th - 10th
"South China comprises the drainage basins of the middle and lower Yangtze River, the basin of the His Chiang (West River) in Kwangtung and Kwangsi; and the mountainous coastal provinces of Fukien and Chekiang. The division between the...