ESL TED Talk Activity - Teachers need real feedback - Bill Gates
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "Teachers need real feedback - Bill Gates", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
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ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "Teachers need real feedback - Bill Gates", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Read narrative text and a glossary about Japan and reflect on open-ended discussion prompts; no exercises, quiz, or answer key are present in the text.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Paragraph" (CCP1100), covering the sub-topic "Prewriting Your Paragraph" (page 13 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents) for teaching the paragraph-writing process.
Read narrative text and a short glossary about Ancient China and reflect on open-ended discussion prompts (e.g. 'What if their inventions were never thought of?'); no exercises, quiz, or answer key are present in the text.
Digital practice resource for CCSS math standard 5.NBT.5 (Multiply Multi-Digit Whole Numbers), delivered as interactive drag-and-drop/fill-in slides plus a linked self-grading Google Form quiz.
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "The History of our world in 18 minutes", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Select an LGBTQ trailblazer (e.g., Harvey Milk) from a provided checklist of subjects, use an outside source to fill out basic biographical information on a research-planner graphic organizer, draw the subject with 5 representative items, then draft, self/peer-check (using a requirements checklist), and submit a 5-paragraph MLA essay…
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Paragraph" (CCP1100), covering the sub-topic "Forms and Purposes of Paragraphs" (page 10 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents) for teaching the paragraph-writing process.
Students review key vocabulary, complete practice/skill-building exercises for each topic, and complete a quiz at the end of each unit.
Digital practice resource for CCSS math standard 5.NF.7 (Apply Understandings of Multiplication and Division), delivered as interactive drag-and-drop/fill-in slides plus a linked self-grading Google Form quiz.
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "The Best Computer Interface? Maybe, your hands", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
A single-chapter slice ("Contracts and Commitments") from the "Practical Life Skills - Managing Money" resource series, teaching secondary students about the money-related implications of contracts and commitments via a reading-comprehension-based unit.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Paragraph" (CCP1100), covering the sub-topic "Drafting Your Paragraph" (page 22 of the full 64-page workbook, per that workbook's table of contents) for teaching the paragraph-writing process.
Study history vocabulary words and their kid-friendly definitions across five thematic sets (Ancient Greece, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Age of Exploration, American West, U.S. Presidents), then answer a 5-question history quiz.
Digital practice resource for CCSS math standard 5.MD.4 (Understand Concepts of Volume), delivered as interactive drag-and-drop/fill-in slides plus a linked self-grading Google Form quiz.
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "The First Secret for Great Design - Tony Fadel", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Learn key vocabulary for each topic (e.g., solid figure, base, vertex, edge, face, net; percent, fractional percent, ratio; area, parallelogram, square unit; irregular figures; perimeter), complete matching/labeling exercises (shape names, unfolded solids/nets), practice percent problems (vacation survey, Thanksgiving…
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Book Report" (CCP1101), covering the sub-topic "Kinds of Book Reports" for teaching students the elements and process of writing a book report.
Read narrative text and a glossary about Ancient India and reflect on open-ended discussion prompts; no exercises, quiz, or answer key are present in the text.
Digital interactive-slides review and self-grading quizzes covering the CCSS 5th-grade Number and Operations - Fractions domain, bundling separate slide decks and quizzes for standards 5.NF.1 through 5.NF.7.
ESL/ELA worksheet activity built around the TED Talk "Optical illusions show how we see - Beau Lotto", used to build listening comprehension, vocabulary, and writing skills.
Model the difference between showing a calculation and explaining why it works. Choose tasks for the skills you are reviewing and discuss more than one clear way to represent a solution.
Reproducible chapter excerpt ("Chapter Slice") from the workbook "How to Write a Book Report" (CCP1101), covering the sub-topic "Non Fiction Book Reports" for teaching students the elements and process of writing a book report.
Students brainstorm alliterative words for a chosen starting letter, draft a 6-line poem about an invented creature following the template, share it for peer feedback, revise, and publish it into a class poetry anthology; teacher assesses with a provided checklist.