With this activity students get the chance to have casual conversation in the warm up, about their favorite sports teams, players and influential commercials. The main activity is centered around numerical signs, getting familiar with different types of measurement (time, amount, etc.)
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Students will have a chance to get acquainted with the other students in their lab group. Additionally, they will review vocabulary they learned in previous semesters. Students will discuss their likes and dislikes, explaining their preferences. This is a great lab to start the year off.
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This warm-up should instigate meaningful conversation about accommodations made for deaf people in the workplace. The main activity gives students the opportunity to host an interview and ask some significant and specific questions about another person.
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This lab will allow students to fingerspell with each other and work on their receptive skills. There is also a fun spy game for the students so they can also work on their conversational skills.
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This activity will be a review for ASL students. There are categories like physical descriptions, numbers and shapes, and Deaf culture. There is also a short fingerspelling quiz for the students to practice their receptive skills.
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This lab will allow ASL students to interact with each other and learn more about one another through a fun game.
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This lab introduces students to family trees and helps them describe their own. It also allows students to practice their receptive skills and interpret others' signs.
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This lab will introduce students to the days of the week and will allow them to sign their schedule to someone else. Students will also get to plan an event and ask if their peers can attend.
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For this lab, students will get the chance to ask in depth questions and get detailed answers about someone's likes and interests. Students will practice asking and answering in depth questions and explain preferences. They will also have the opportunity to talk about past experiences with gift giving.
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Students are exposed to a wide variety of things to do with this activity, each individual activity focuses on either expressive or receptive signs. All four activities work on improving fingerspelling skills, as well as reading fingerspelling. Students also get a chance to experience tactile signing in one of the activities!
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In this activity, students get the chance to explore the possibility of deaf people needing service animals. The activity encourages conversation about important topics surrounding deaf individuals. Students will have the opportunity to converse unfamiliar topics and discuss potentially controversial topics.
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Students will talk about news and how they access it. In the main activity, students will make an ad supporting or opposing a certain product, they will have to make their case to the rest of the group.Students will learn how to discuss items and express opinions on items to a group.
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This lab allows students to review what they've learned so far. Students will play a variety of games to better their sign skills. The games involve vocabulary, fingerspelling and physical descriptions.
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This game helps students use descriptions to describe a word. Students will learn how to use other vocabulary words to have their peers guess a particular word. Students will also get to play Hangman to help with their fingerspelling skills.
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In this activity, students will have the opportunity to get to know each other and their lab assistant by sharing summer experiences in a casual setting. Students will share their preferences and express reasons for their preferences as well. Students will also practice describing vacations.
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Students will get the chance to watch a CODA Comedian in the warm up and get a glimpse into what it is like to have deaf parents. In the main activity, students will be able to work together to understand just how important facial expressions in sign language are.
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Students will talk about their favorite board games. They will learn how to discuss preferences in board games. For the main activity, students are playing battle ship with some review of vocabulary signs from the semester.
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This lab will practice different skills learned throughout the semester through the use of a board game. The game is focused on Deaf culture, describing physical appearance, and the five parameters of signs. The students will play the game together and work on their communication skills throughout by answering and engaging with the game cards.
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This activity is great for practicing ASL sentence structure Time-Topic-Comment. This activity provides students with new signs for idioms, and encourages them to be creative when coming up with their stories. Students will learn to create stories and practice presenting stories using idioms.
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Students will review the signs for emotions and play a game to better understand how to use the emotions in conversation. Students will have the opportunity to communicate with peers to defend and explain their choices.
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