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Comparing Fractions With Unlike Denominators

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This lesson focuses on comparing and ordering fractions in ways that encourage deeper understanding of’ ‘number sense’ by supporting learners to consider different techniques to order and compare fractions with different numerators and denominators. The three techniques covered in this lesson are those used to compare fractions with like numerators or denominators, unlike numerators or denominators and by comparing to a 1/2 benchmark. Emphasis are placed on the two latter techniques. Activities and practice exercises involve real-world problems including sales discounts, cooking measurements and school score reports.

Material Type: Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Rasheedat Yahaya

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Traffic and Road Signs in Basic English: Preparing for the Driver's Test- Remix

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This lesson is geared towards beginning English language learners who plan to take a U.S. driving test. The goal of this lesson is for learners to be able to recognize traffic and road signs, recognize and describe their meanings, and practice multiple-choice test-taking to prepare for passing a U.S. driving test.

Material Type: Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan

Author: Robin Armstrong

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Arithmet

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Learners become introduced to the concept of budget and its use in business settings. They will prepare a simple budget in excel for two business trips from Washington D.C. to both a domestic and an international destination of their choice researching various websites and they will create a short presentation on ways to save money on business travel. The lesson will provide learners with an opportunity to develop basic literacy in MS office applications, basic financial literacy and to hone their internet researching skills.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Lesson Plan, Reading

Author: Viviana Dreyer

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Calculat

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This lesson focuses on using the properties of rectangles to calculate area. It is designed to aid adult students to successfully master and apply basic geometry knowledge in a professional setting (construction and related) and can also contribute to achieving High School Equivalency (HSE). Areas to be covered include properties of rectangles and squares; definition of ‘square’; right-angled triangles; calculating areas of rectangles and right-angled triangles; decomposition of area into manageable units; and calculating costs. Students will apply this knowledge to calculating the costs of purchasing building materials.

Material Type: Interactive, Lesson Plan

Author: david cowell

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Job Ads

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This group-work lesson is designed for students with beginner to low-intermediate communication skills. The purpose of this lesson is to help students to familiarize themselves with basic elements of job ads (e.g. job title, role responsibilities, minimum qualifications, and company description), and how to compare the description in these categories to target job applicants. Through this lesson, students will learn how to analyze a job advertisement and match example job applicants to the target job. They will also work to improve their discussion skills.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Sonia Casillas

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Integers

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This lesson will be the first of six lessons guiding students in constructing the abstract concepts necessary to understand adding positive and negative integers. It is designed for adult learners (or middle school or older) who are not fluent with using numbers. A real life lesson will be included in this series of lessons-Budgeting.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lynne Alexander

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ACES - D

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ACES (Academic, Career & Employability Skills) The goal of ACES is to ensure that Adult Basic Education (ABE) programs are able to provide effective contextualized instruction integrating post-secondary education and training readiness, employability skills, and career readiness at all levels. The Transitions Integration Framework (TIF) is the cornerstone of ACES. It was designed to provide ABE programs and instructors with guidance on the effective integration of transitions skills into instruction at all levels of ABE. The TIF defines the academic, career, and employability skills essential for adult learners to successfully transition to post-secondary education, career training, the workplace, and community involvement. The ACES Resource Library contains tools to help ABE practitioners incorporate the TIF skills into lessons and instructional settings and provides materials that can be used directly with adult learners.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Lucila Oliver

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Honey Bees and Environmental Sustainability - BEE My Friend

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This lesson will help adult learners to identify honey bees, identify different types of honey bees in a hive, describe pollination process, interpret the importance of pollination and honey bees for pollination and gain knowledge about beekeeping. This will provide a business idea for them to pursue at the same type help conserve honey bee populations. In the long run this will help make food production sustainable. Several online and paper resources are available in this lesson.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Shamila Janakiraman

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Good and

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In this lesson, students will be able to view and analyze both good and bad interview techniques. The learners are people who's education may have been interrupted for various reasons. The lesson will provide practical exercises on using the techniques presented. Learners will be exposed to proper and improper interview techniques.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Interactive, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: David Haile

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Followin

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This lesson geared towards adult learners focuses on reading informative texts that describe how to perform basic computer-related tasks, including saving a document in Word and sending an email attachment. After reading the informative texts, learners will identify and sequence the 5 or more key steps needed to complete the tasks. They will then follow the steps to execute the tasks. This lesson will prepare learners to effectively find key information about how to complete technological tasks and be able to carry out the steps independently. This will assist them when future educational or job requirements require the use of computer skills they do not yet have, and they will need to use informational texts to learn the new skills.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Pavneeet kaur

Oral Communication: An English Conversation Board Game

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This board game combines practicing conversational English for adult ESL students with using the various purposes for oral communication (informing, entertaining, persuading, and honoring/inspiring). It will also develop foundational reading comprehension skills through game participation and will develop professional communication and interpersonal skills by allowing discussion of different social subjects that students could encounter in daily life, academic, and career situations.

Material Type: Activity/Lab, Game, Interactive

Author: Heidi Kirby

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Order of

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This lesson is about evaluating numerical expressions, and it was designed for adult learners who are preparing to take their High School Equivalency tests. This course will help the students evaluate numerical expressions correctly by following the correct order of operations, which includes the four basic arithmetical operations and the use of exponents and grouping symbols.

Material Type: Lesson

Author: Susan Jones

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Main Ide

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This lesson is aimed at finding the main idea and details in an informational text. The text is at grade C reading level. The learner should be able to identify, sort, state and write the central idea and it’s supporting details in a given text. The terms central idea, theme, thesis, mainly about, will be used as synonymous with the main idea of a text. The students will create a brochure/flyer, conduct research and build fluency during the course of this lesson.

Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Homework/Assignment, Lesson Plan, Teaching/Learning Strategy

Author: Victoria Sabija

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Job Inte

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Learners will observe and discuss two similar interview scenarios. Janet Lee added videos by Ray, who provided additional commentary for viewers to consider as they review the original videos. Using information from classroom discussion and input from a professional recruiter, learners will create their own unique response to the difficult prompt, "Tell me about yourself." In addition, this lesson will incorporate elements of Carrie Miller's "Describing Yourself to a Potential Employer". These two lessons work synergistically together to provide practice and feedback for ABE clients

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Peggy Lumpkin

Money Management for Adults - Budgeting

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This lesson aims at teaching adults how to budget. It is intended as part of a series regarding money management for people with high-school reading and math skills who nevertheless lack the specific knowledge and competences required to make financial plans. It includes material drawn from various sources and suggests activities combining text comprehension, numerical operations and computer use. Its content applies both to personal and professional situations.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: Aspasia Loukeri

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The Argu

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The learner-audience for this lesson are adults preparing for the GED, specifically the English/Language Arts assessment. The lesson demonstrates how the successful writing of the “thesis-statement” is essential for writing an effective persuasive essay. The lesson will help prepare learners to write an effective thesis statement which their essay responds to. The lesson shows how a successful thesis statement guides the direction of the rest of the essay and that without an effective thesis statement most essays are difficult to write and to comprehend for the reader. The lesson encourages learners to practice writing thesis statements and to write thesis statements that draw from their own experiences.

Material Type: Lesson Plan

Author: newton buliva

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Type it Up!

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Most work is processed through computers nowadays, like submitting reports or filling out forms. Therefore, typing skill is the prerequisite to these tasks. This motivational lesson about computers will help learners realize the necessity of using computer can be of help to them personally and for school or work, and will provide a basic understanding of some basics of computer skills.

Material Type: Assessment, Diagram/Illustration, Reading, Simulation

Author: Lin Lin

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Order of

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This lesson is about evaluating numerical expressions, and it was designed for adult learners who are preparing to take their High School Equivalency tests. This course will help the students evaluate numerical expressions correctly by following the correct order of operations, which includes the four basic arithmetical operations and the use of exponents and grouping symbols (parentheses, brackets, and curly braces).

Material Type: Lesson

Author: S Roy

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