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TE Activity: Write On!
Students write a book, newspaper, or other chose published writing that explains the connection between engineering and the environment. They determine why engineers need to be good communicators.
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Foreign Language: Bienvenidos
Students review family vocabulary and relations with the Bienvenidos CDs. They watch, listen to, participate in, answer questions, and compose letters during the activity. Finally, they apply cultural differences to their own situations.
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The Graffiti Model 1
Eighth graders work together in groups to practice their communication skills. They answer different questions based on what group they are in and communicate the information to different groups. They discuss the activity to end the lesson.
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I'm Not In Range
Learners discover how cell phone service works while participating in a role play activity. They identify its advantages and disadvantages based on service. They examine how engineers use this information to develop better...
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Good Job
Students determine the differences between compliments and criticisms, and make polite and informal requests. Students complete a worksheet and read through a conversations from their text to determine the differences between compliments...
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Time is Money
Students determine three characteristics of good employees and good supervisors. Students watch a video and complete a worksheet to help them determine what the characteristics are of good employees and good supervisors.
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Communication, Day 4: Hearing "No"
Learners read a case study about communicating with others. They identify a second choice if their first item is rejected. They practice accepting "no" as an answer and complete a worksheet.
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Land Use Issues
In this unit of lessons, students examine analogies and parts of speech. They use land use issues to identify the different parts of speech that they research. They create analogies about the origin of organisms.
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E-Mail to Learning
Third graders investigate how to use e-mail for communication and the Internet for a source of information. They establish e-pals and conduct an author's study using the Internet.
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Communicating with Legislators
Students explain why it is important to communicate with legislators, describe three ways to communicate with legislators, and create a radio public service announcement that explains why it is important to vote and to communicate with...
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Extraterrestrial Communication: Can We Talk to Anybody Out There?
Young scholars examine the possibilities of communication with other living organisms within our solar system through research and hands on activities, as well as observing and analyzing teacher demonstrations.
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Communication 1: The Basics
Learners identify the differences between assertive, aggressive, passive and manipulative behaviors. They relate each behavior to a relationship they have with a family member.
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Family
Learners investigate the purpose, needs, and behaviors of a variety of configurations of families. The benefits of good communication skills among family members are emphasized in this lesson.
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Communication -- Part Two
Learners practice on becoming an effective listener and speaking clearly. They experiment with one another in which only one student of a pair can speak.
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Two Way Communication
Students play a modified game of hangman. One students is the drawer and the other the communicator. They also experiment playing the game in which both students can talk.
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Communication 4: Saying "NO"
Students complete a role playing game called the "refusal card game" in order to encourage three main assertive behaviors when saying NO.
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What is a Bad Attitude?
Students demonstrate their communication skills by answering questions on a case study worksheet and participating in a class discussion.
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Extended Families
Students examine the various combinations that contemporary extended families take on. They identify how strong communication skills are important to the health of the family after reading a an excerpt from a first-person fictional journal.
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A Happy Time
Second graders listen to stories about feelings, identify their own feelings at specific times in their lives, and express their feelings in words and through writing.
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Who's Listening?
Students identify nonverbal signs of attention, and demonstrate skills for interacting with others.
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Starting the School Year off with a Bang!
Student teachers learn the significance of asking questions of their principal and preparing/organizing their classrooms for a successful beginning of their school year.
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Working With Parents
Student teachers learn the importance of understanding the family dynamics of their students to effectively communicate academic and behavioral concerns.
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Keeping in Touch
Students read about the Northern Migration of African Americans in the 19th century, and create an eight panel cartoon depicting the means of communication between freed slaves in the North and those still enslaved in the South.
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Frank Oo Berry Mush
Students practice writing, incorporating reasons to support ideas, and responding constructively to other's comments.