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Modern Day Pen Pals, Connecting Our Art Room to the Rest of the World!

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Initiate an international pen pal program! After establishing communication with an art class in another country, groups share pod casts and video streams of their work. The scripted resource details how to prepare for the pod casts, but...
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Tuberculosis Project

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Reasearch the transmission of tuberculosis and design a communication product to help youth understand the risks of the disease, how it is tested for, and the benefits of proper treatment. This project incorporates language arts, math,...
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Chance Art: Pollock, Cage and Cunningham

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students clearly identify commonalities and differences between dance and other disciplines with regard to fundamental concepts such as materials, elements, and ways of communicating meaning.
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Minnesota-China Connections:What Time Is It?

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners calculate the time difference between Beijing, China and their local community. They discuss how time difference affects intercultural communication.
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Developing Characterizations by Creating Stereotypes

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine past and present cultures through theater. They interpret how theater reflects society. Students engage in the process that constitutes creation and performance in the theater. Students explore the forces that shape...
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Volleyball - Lesson 13 - Setting up to Attack and Winning the Point

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Now that the basics of passing, setting, and hitting have been covered, it's time to put it all together. Lesson 13 has groups of players practicing to pass, set, spike. Communication is emphasized. It takes a lot of practice to be...
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From Formal To Slang

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders define the term slang, explaining its various social, historical, and racial contexts, so as to articulate when it can be appropriately used as a means of effective communication. They use their own personal slang lexicon,...
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Writing Limericks

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders compose or create works of communication for specific audiences and purposes. They locate, access, and select relevant information from a variety of sources. They revise and edit their work to improve content, organization...
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Seeing Both Sides of an Issue

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students examine global issues from different perspectives. For this communication skills lesson, students participate in a classroom activity that requires them to take stances on issues and then consider the support of other...
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Basic Visual Language

For Teachers K - 12th
Young scholars gain knowledge of the basics of visual communication. They are introduced to the three fundamental elements of visual language. Those are: camera angle, lighting, and compositions. Students video each other from different...
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Animal Kingdom Game

For Teachers Pre-K - 5th
Young scholars build their vocabulary and communication skills by describing animals found in nature. In this ESL instructional activity, students play a board game to compare and contrast animals. Young scholars respond to icons,...
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Mother, May I Communicate?

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students participate in a unique version of the game Mother, May I. They play the game to explore how to positively communicate their needs, wants and feelings, and to demonstrate how to react to problems.
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Que te gusta comer? What Do You Like to Eat?

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders examine their preferences concerning foods, beverages and eating habits during different meals. A variety of exercises in listening, speaking, reading and writing will be provided to ensure that students discuss their...
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Ethnic Foods Exchange

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students examine the following topics: geography and culture, types of foods, cooking utensils, and cooking techniques used. They present in groups, then prepare ethnic food products.
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Honesty in Writing

For Teachers 8th
Eighth graders analyze the conveyance of honesty in written products. In this writing skills instructional activity, 8th graders discuss bias and fabrication in writing. Students practice sincere writing as they write statements...
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Electronic Mail - The Postman Delivers

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students examine the use of electronic mail. In this electronic mail lesson, students determine how to use different e-mail programs and how they access information using this medium. They discuss how e-mail differs from regular mail and...
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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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Know Yourself!

For Teachers 9th
Deaf students view segments about autobiographies. They are to answer questions about themselves and write their own autobiography.
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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.
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Describing Family - Lesson Plan

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students describe their family in their new language French. They use adjectives, and proper gender. Then they describe how the family is alike and different.
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Science Journal Writing: Observation, Problem Solving

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students consider the value of keeping a science journal. They make a journal and prepare the first entries.
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Exploring Strategic Competency

For Teachers Higher Ed
Students practice using the English language to help them in instances where they have differing opinions. They practice paraphrasing language.
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Agreeing on Terms

For Teachers 8th - 10th
Students observe and describe the wind, analyze their descriptions for clarity, and compare them both with Jonas Ramoth's descriptions and with the Beaufort Wind Scale. observations.
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How Do Words Feel?

For Teachers K - 8th
Learners discuss the difference between harsh words and soft words, and how words feel. They feel various mystery materials such as sandpaper, or cotton, and decide if the materials would describe a word that is harsh or soft.

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