Same & Different provides students with the opportunity to use their background knowledge about the items on the Picture This cards to create descriptions that compare and contrast two items on a card. This game works well groups of 3, having one student select the two items and the other two students alternate comparing and contrasting the two items.

This webinar "Activate: Games for Learning American English" introduces teachers to the Activate resource, demonstrates classroom management techniques for playing games in the classroom, and offers tips on how teacher's can create their own games that match their curriculum objectives. For this webinar, you will find an online webinar recording and the downloadable presentation and resources.

Zach Ladin, who grew up in a family of musicians in New England, has been involved with music his entire life. His passion for all things nature-related has led him to bring together his love of music, his love of nature, and his background in ecology and education in his environmentally themed children’s music.

The song Into the Garden is an example of folk and Americana music, which has a broad range of musical influences (from folk, country and blues to rock & roll and bluegrass). In this song, Ladin invites us all to have a first-hand experience with the animals, plants, vegetables and fruits we can find in gardens. The song is a celebration of the experience of being in a garden, and the joys of growing food. This song emphasizes being grateful for the food that sustains us and for the natural systems a healthy earth provides for us.

ABCs provides students with vocabulary practice by asking them to think of vocabu­lary words that are related to many different topics. Students use Picture This cards as a starting point for each topic. Then they come up with related vocabulary items that begin with many letters of the alphabet. This game works well as a whole-class activity or as a competition among groups.