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1. Lesson Plan: Taking a Look at Schools

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 2 Format(s): Text

   This lesson plan, based on a short reading of a student’s description of a one-room schoolhouse, has a variety of activities, including group discussions, vocabulary practice, a spelling bee, research topics, interviews, and a task that has students exploring their own school.

2. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Environmental Education

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaining a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is environmental education.

3. Chapter 1: Endangered Species

   In: Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Environmental Education Format(s): Text

   This chapter in the Environmental Education volume of the Language and Civil Society e-journal focuses on endangered species, which are animals or plants that are in immediate danger of extinction.

4. Classroom Techniques: - Nonstop Writing

   In: English Teaching Forum 2005, Volume 43, Number 3 Format(s): Text

   This article offers Nonstop Writing as a classroom activity to help students overcome the anxiety that can come with composition in a second language. Nonstop Writing is defined as timed, ungraded writing on an assigned topic. The author describes how to carry out and use this activity.

5. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Peace Education

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaing a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is peace education.

6. Community Content Based Instruction CCBI Manual (Peace Corps)

   Format(s): Text, Website

   A comprehensive manual on CCBI including history, examples, and lesson plans (PDF).

7. Earth, Space, Life and Physical Sciences

   Format(s): Website

   Science resources and lesson plans, provided by Federal Resources for Educational Excellence.

8. Language and Civil Society E-Journal: Business Ethics

   Format(s): Text

   The content in each volume of this e-journal is related to an aspect of building or maintaining a Civil Society - topics that affect students' personal or professional lives on a daily basis. The topic of this volume is business ethics as it relates to human rights, fairness, and justice.

9. Picture This – Questions, Questions

   In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

   This game gives students practice forming yes/no questions. Download the cards and instructions for the game.

10. Picture This – Questions Quiz

    In: Activate Games for Learning American English: Picture This Format(s): Text

    Students practice creating questions that contain very specific information about one item from a Picture This card, so that there is only one correct answer to the question.

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