ESL Magazine - NCELA Spells RESOURCE! ESL Magazine is the leading magazine for AmericanEnglish language teachers NCELA staff have developed a set of interactive lesson plans to accompany http://www.eslmag.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=13
LESSON PLANS On SOUTHEAST ASIA From OTHER SOURCES Mengajar Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) Wendie Walker Teaching with Documents lesson Plan The War in Vietnam - A Story in Photographs - The http://www.niu.edu/cseas/outreach/otherlessons.htm
Extractions: LESSON PLANS and TEACHING MATERIAL on SOUTHEAST ASIA from OTHER SOURCES (Updated July 6, 2004) Lesson plans and teaching material on Southeast Asia developed by other teachers and experts and available on the Internet. Some resource material is in Abode PDF format. You will need Adobe Acrobat to open these files. To download Adobe Reader for free, click on the Adobe icon SOUTHEAST ASIA - GENERAL The Art of South and Southeast Asia - by Steven M. Kossak and Edith W. Watts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001) Build Listening Skills With Asian Folktales - Education World Child Labor in Southeast Asia - from Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University (1997) Debating the Future of Indochina in 1945: Making Your Case - from the Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute (2002) Lessons Plans - SE Asia Consortium for Teaching Asia and the Pacific in the Schools, Mauka Lani Elementary School Modules from Professional Development Study Tour of Southeast Asia Summer 2001 Five Colleges Inc., the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts Amherst: Southeast Asian Folktales (Grade 5) (PDF) The Characteristics of Organisms (Grade 6) (PDF) Art of Southeast Asia, Up Close and Practical
English Language Arts Note Many sites listed under the lesson Plan and Literature/Reading Good site to find examples of vietnamese legends and tales, customs, and culture. http://www.mslma.org/selection/best/reading&lit.htm
Extractions: Prepared by: Beverly Shinn, Library Teacher, Brookline High School, and Instructor at Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science; and by Karen W. Starr, Library Teacher Updated December, 2001 Standards 7-18: Reading and Literature (Beginning Reading, Making Connections, Genre, Theme, Fiction, Poetry, Figurative Language, Myth and Classical Literature.)
Assorted Lessons language Arts Teaching Tools. Primary Elementary Center Ideas Mineral Information Institute has collections of lesson plans, student activities, http://www.coollessons.org/assortedlessons.html
Extractions: SECTIONS September 11 Lesson Plans and Ideas Science History/Social Studies Mathematics ... Primary Elementary Center Ideas Science FROGUTS.com allows you to dissect a frog using animations. Your students will need at least an hour to do this. You will need to have your school's tech person download flashplayer Flash 5 or Flash 6 to run the animations. Mineral Information Institute has collections of lesson plans, student activities, mineral photos, minerals available in each state including maps and much more. Rainforest Curriculum is a series of units, lessons and resources on the rainforest for K-12 from the Earth's Birthday Project. The Rain Forest Action Network's Kids' Corner provides resources, activities and ideas children can use to do their part to save the rain forests. Use Journey Into Amazonia from the PBS as a resource about the Amazon rainforest. Bugs and Gardens has lessons, resources and units from the Earth's Birthday Project. Use
Tet, The Vietnamese New Year, A Lesson Plan For Grades 4-6 lesson plan for Tet, the vietnamese New Year. F. language Art project Discuss similes. Have the students write a farewell wish to their family as http://www.adoptvietnam.org/vietnamese/tet-lessonplan.htm
Extractions: ADOPT VIETNAM Vietnam and Vietnamese Culture home adoption vietnam travel ... shopping Tet, the Vietnamese New Year, A Lesson Plan for Grades 4 - 6 By Tracy Ward Background: Vietnam is a country in the Eastern Hemisphere that was influenced by China for many years. Therefore, the Chinese New Year and Tet, the Vietnamese New Year have many similarities. Tet is the abbreviation of Tet Nguyen Dan which means the first morning of the first day of the new period. Tet marks the beginning of a new year on the lunar calendar, and the beginning of Spring. Vietnamese are constantly aware of the phases of the moon. All events are planned by the lunar calendar. The New Year begins on the first night of the first moon after the sun enters Aquarius. This is sometime between January 21 and February 19 on the solar calendar. Tet is a huge celebration lasting three days. Families save money, store food, and plan far in advance for Tet, major holiday in Vietnam. The Vietnamese take extreme care to start the New Year out right. They buy new clothes, paint and clean their homes, cook three days worth of food, pay off all debts and make amends to rid themselves of all bad feelings. Cleaning is frowned on during Tet because one would not want to sweep out any good luck. Digging and drawing water is also not allowed so the ground and water can enjoy the holiday. The marketplace is very busy the week before Tet, as people buy food, trinkets, firecrackers, flowers, and other items in anticipation of the holiday. At four o'clock in the afternoon on Tet eve all the markets close down so the people can go home and prepare for midnight when Tet begins. Before 1995 firecrackers would explode scaring off all evil spirits and welcoming the New Year. In 1995, because of the huge waste of money and the injury rate, (71 people killed in 1994), the government banned the use of firecrackers resulting in a very quiet Tet.
BUBL LINK: Language Learning Provides a brief introduction to the language, and offers an outline of the alphabet, lesson plans, projects and tools aimed at the educational sector. http://bubl.ac.uk/link/l/languagelearning.htm
Extractions: BUBL LINK Catalogue of Internet Resources Home Search Subject Menus Countries ... Z Titles Descriptions African Studies Ancient Tupi Home Page BBC Languages Blue Web'n Learning Sites Library ... WELL Project: Web Skills for Language Learning Comments: bubl@bubl.ac.uk African language resources on the Internet. Resource type: directory A guide to the Tupi language spoken in Brazil between 1500 and 1700 AD, together with details of the Indigen tribes who used it. Provides a brief introduction to the language, and offers an outline of the alphabet, phonetics, and grammar. A dictionary is also featured, and information is available in Portuguese and English. Resource type: guide German, French, Italian and Spanish language learning resources, suitable for individuals of varying abilities. Offers information about broadcasts such as BBC Learning Zone and BBC Alert, resources for teachers, courses accompanying BBC language programmes, and transcripts of such programmes aimed at beginners, advanced learners and business language learners. Resource type: interactive guide Set of links to a large collection of activities, tutorials, lesson plans, projects and tools aimed at the educational sector. Broad subject categories include arts, business, English, foreign language, health and physical education, history and social studies, mathematics, science, technology, vocational education, education, and community interest.
PIZZAZ! Creative Writing And Storytelling Ideas Scribblers and Teachers of English as a Second language Icebreakers, See AskERIC s lesson plans. Use the search function with icebreaker or get to http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~leslieob/pizzaz.html
Extractions: Description: PIZZAZ! is dedicated to providing simple creative writing and oral storytelling activities with copyable (yes, copyable!) handouts for use with students of all ages. Permission is given to use these resources for in-class, non-profit use only. Prerequisite: An interest in using English in fun, dynamic ways! ESOL Student Level: Beginner through Advanced Cinquain Poems Five-line poems that are very easy to write.
Story Arts | Storytelling Activities & Lesson Ideas Curriculum Ideas Exchange. lesson plans and Activities and librarianscan be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support speaking, http://www.storyarts.org/lessonplans/lessonideas/
Extractions: This collection of storytelling activities-developed by storyteller/author Heather Forest for her storytelling workshops with students, teachers, and librarians-can be expanded by educators into language arts lesson plans to support speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Storytellers on Tour Have students practice retelling folktales in their classroom. When students feel confident, teams of three or four students at a time can then take their tales to other classes for a storytelling concert. If older students are sent to the younger grades, ask the younger grades to thank the storytellers with drawings inspired by their stories. 1001 Nights Festival This is a continuing storytelling session in which a story is begun and then left open-ended at a crucial point. The next day the story is completed and a new one begun and left open-ended at an exciting moment. Stories could be selected from the Tales of the Arabian Nights and told in this fashion, as in the style of Shahrazad, its great storyteller. According to legend, she told stories in this way to a sultan for 1001 nights, which is why the stories of the Arabian Nights is also called "1001 Nights." A Picture is Worth 1000 Words A class selects a classical painting. Looking at the painting for inspiration, the class constructs the first few sentences of a tale through group discussion and suggestion. The paragraph is then sent on to another class which reads the first paragraph and adds on another. The process is repeated including as many classes as possible until the tale seems finished. All the classes then gather to hear the result of their group effort read out loud and to see the painting, that inspired the story.
FREE GOVERNMENT WEB SITES AND THE SOLS The Teacher s Toolbox includes a workbook with lesson plans for using documents in lesson plans by subject art and culture, literature/language arts, http://www.hollins.edu/academics/library/information/gov_vla.htm
Extractions: legis.state.va.us The official portal for Virginia government information and services. Under "Government" find organization of the branches, state contacts, facts about the state ("about Virginia") and the Virginia Code along with links for finding and tracking legislation. For information about the legislature look at the General Assembly; this site also has good educational features under the "Capitol Classroom."
ENC Portal - Advanced Search Results K12 Searchable directory to lesson plans. language Arts, Math, Science, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall Page is dedicated to honoring those who http://portal.dep.anl.gov/SPT--AdvancedSearch.php?vn=Classification&vv=Subject -
United States History Lesson Plans Cold War This lesson plan focuses on how various movies depict the relationship between the It is a great device for an inquiry lesson on Vietnam. http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/history/us_history/
Extractions: Curriculum Lesson Plans Organizers Rubrics ... "A Practical Experiment In Colonization" - The purpose of this activity is to provide an opportunity for American History students to gain practical experience in the basic types of challenges that may exist in the establishment of any early colony. A Review of American History - The purpose of this lesson is to review the importance historical events and time periods of United States history from discovery to the present. Through the use of art, crafts, drama, music, and dance, students can acquire a better understanding of the important contributions of individuals as well as cultural groups, and their impact on U.S. history. A Study of the PortolaExpedition: 1769 - During the first week, students will take on the identity of a personon the Portola expedition. Each day the students will be requiredto keep a journal for their character. For the second week,the students will, as a class, devise a list of questions for each character(the teacher may help in this to get things going). American Experience Abroad: An Interview - Young people rarely realize how much other nations impact the United States. With foreign trade being so controversial, students need an opportunity to examine a broad spectrum of information about our complex relationships with overseas friends and foes.
Vietnamese Language Aids Modern vietnamese is a monosyllabic language, meaning that all words are only one Includes language lessons, drills, exercises, spoken conversations, http://www.vietnamonline.com/travel/language.html
Extractions: Along with architecture, laws and cuisine, the modern Vietnamese language reflects the influence of people who settled, invaded and colonized Vietnam over the past two thousand years. Because of their regional domination for many centuries, the Chinese had a particularly powerful impact on the Vietnamese language, and many words are of Chinese origin. For several centuries, a Chinese alphabet was used by scholars and aristocrats. Modern Vietnamese is a monosyllabic language, meaning that all words are only one syllable long. Like Thai, Vietnamese is tonal, meaning that a rising or falling tone changes the meaning of the word. Since most Western languages use tone to emphasize an underlying meaning, interpretation, or emotion (e.g., angry, doubtful, sarcastic, flamboyant, flirtatious, hesitant, etc.) tonal languages like Vietnamese are particularly difficult for Westerners to learn. Since English is taught in all Vietnamese schools, you will have fewer communications problems than you might expect. Your high school French may also come in handy. Failing that, theres always charades. You will find most Vietnamese patient, tolerant, and willing to do what they can to communicate with you. If you plan an extended tour (especially outside Saigon or Hanoi) or plan to live in Vietnam, you should strongly consider taking a class or even buying language tapes. We have reviewed and recommend the self-study programs below.
Lesson Plans: Vietnam Teacher's Guide Vietnam A Teacher s Guide. The Asia Society s Focus on Asian Studies, Are these the lessons of the Vietnam War? Can you add other lessons ? http://www.askasia.org/teachers/Instructional_Resources/Lesson_Plans/Vietnam/LP_
Extractions: Vietnam: A Teacher's Guide The Asia Society's Focus on Asian Studies, Special Issue, No. 1, Fall 1983. Table of Contents Preface Prologue: I. The French in Vietnam ... Epilogue The year 1983-1984 will be a time of reassessment of the Vietnam War among Americans. The desire to "rethink" America's involvement in Vietnam has been prompted by the ten-year anniversary of the U.S. withdrawal of combat troops from Vietnam; the completion of the controversial Vietnam Memorial in Washington, D.C.; and events in Central America that pose some of the same kinds of dilemmas and foreign policy choices as did the situation in Vietnam. The WGBH Educational Foundation has produced a thirteen-part television retrospective, Vietnam: A Television History , to be broadcast by the Public Broadcasting Service starting in October, 1983. The series has also been adopted as a licensed telecourse. Information on the telecourse can be obtained from Films Incorporated, 1213 Wilmette Avenue, Wilmette, IL 60091; (312) 256-4730. The Asia Society's Education and Communications Department (editors and publishers of Focus on Asian Studies ) has taken this opportunity to prepare a teacher's guide on Vietnam for secondary school use. A committee of three university-based scholars and three secondary-level classroom teachers has pooled its considerable resources to write this guide. Robert Geise is Social Studies Chairman, South Side High School, Rockville Centre, NY. Michael J. Glatthaar is a secondary school teacher. A. Tom Grunfeld teaches history at SUNY/Empire State College. Moss Roberts is Associate Professor of Chinese at New York University in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Literatures and directed the East Asian Studies Program there for many years. Mark Willner is Assistant Principal, Chairman (Social Studies Department), Midwood High School, Brooklyn, NY. Marilyn Blatt Young is Professor of History at New York University.
Third 30 Days - Kindergarten Language Arts Students will also enjoy participating in languagerich lessons that tie in Native Americans, Pilgrims, Title Let s Visit Vietnam! - lesson Plan http://www.glc.k12.ga.us/seqlps/sudspres.asp?SUID=238&SSUID=235&SSTitle=Kinderga
P.O.V. - Soldados . For Educators | PBS Click here to download a PDF version of this lesson plan The Vietnam War (referred to by vietnamese as the American War) began for the United States in http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/soldados/for.html
Extractions: 2-6 class periods, depending on whether work is done in class or assigned as homework. Top of Page BACKGROUND INFORMATION: The Vietnam War (referred to by Vietnamese as the American War) began for the United States in 1963 and ended with its military withdrawal in 1973. The war resulted in more than 58,000 dead and 300,000 wounded on the U.S. side, and close to 2 million Vietnamese civilian and military casualties. Over 170,000 Hispanics served and 5.2% of them (over 3,000) died. The film "Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam" gives voice to a handful of those Hispanic soldiers. Oral history has been a vital tool in preserving the social and cultural history of communities across the globe. It especially allows for the contribution of voices not included in traditional history texts or government documents. "Soldados: Chicanos in Viet Nam," fits well in that tradition. The experiences of Chicano soldiers (soldados) have been largely absent from the historical record of U.S. involvement in Vietnam. The U.S. government did not even begin keeping separate statistics on Hispanics until 1979.
The Language Resource Newsletter - May 2003 language lesson The Monkey and the Frog A Strip Story If you have a lesson plan that you would like to submit for consideration, email it to Ephy http://www.nclrc.org/caidlr74.htm
Core Knowledge Lesson Plans: Grade 8 Core Knowledge® lesson plans. About the lessons Resources home Vietnam War and the Rise of Social Activism; Middle East and Oil Politics http://www.coreknowledge.org/CK/resrcs/lessons/8.htm
Extractions: Send questions and comments to Language Arts/ English Writing, Grammar, and Usage Poetry Fiction, Nonfiction, and Drama Foreign Phrases Commonly Used in English History and Geography Decline of European Colonialism Cold War Civil Rights Movement Vietnam War and the Rise of Social Activism Middle East and Oil Politics End of the Cold War: Expansion of Democracy and Continuing Challenges Civics: The Constitution - Principles and Structure of American Democracy Geography of Canada and Mexico Visual Arts Art History: Periods and Schools
Extractions: Get your evaluation ... Archives Lesson Planning Article L E S S O N P L A N N I N G A R T I C L E For many students, Memorial Day merely marks the beginning of summer fun. This year, introduce them to the true meaning of the holiday, and provide them with a glimpse into the lives of the men and women it honors. Included: An Internet Treasure Hunt plus Web-based activities for learning about and celebrating Memorial Day! To help your students celebrate Memorial Day with a deeper understanding of its history and importance, you might begin by sharing these lines, from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, about soldiers who died in battle: Your silent tents of green
