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This graphic organizer is very helpful for teachers and students as they begin brainstorming and preparing to write persuasive 5-paragraph essays. Students will write a timed, persuasive essay for their final HSED Writing test, so it is important for them to learn how to quickly organize their ideas.

The Minnesota Literacy Council provided lesson plans and additional resources that are focused on preparing adult learners for the GED science test. While Iowa does not use the GED test, some of the same skills and content would apply to the HSED test. HSED instructors can modify or use parts of these resources with their students.

Teachers can sign up for free on this website to get access to free curriculum, lessons, resources, and daily leveled reading texts. This website also provides suggestions and opportunities for differentiation.

This website contains grammar exercises geared toward adult learners. Teachers or students can use these free resources, and it is considered "Grammar Instruction with Attitude," so the site tries to explain grammar in a style that doesn't look like it is designed for elementary students.

The Smithsonian Science Education Center provided several videos to help teachers develop science curricula. This site also includes videos about effective teaching strategies to use for science classes and information about science resources to use in the classroom.

Students can use this website to gain access to free public domain audiobooks. This is a valuable resource for students who struggle with reading and would benefit from exposure to fluent reading. This site could especially be helpful for students who want additional independent reading practice if they can follow along with a book while listening to the audio version.

This site provides links to interactive science games that are at an appropriate level for high school students or adult learners. Students can use these games to review topics such as the periodic table of elements and anatomy.

Students can use this site to access free articles about scientific information. Articles include topics related to animals, inventions, the environment, space, and more. The pictures and short articles could be useful for introducing a new topic or for students to do independent research about scientific topics of their choice.

This website provides video lessons about the steps to becoming a U.S. citizen, the N-400 interview, the 100 civics questions, the reading/writing section of the test, the interview process, and new citizenship. ELLs can practice vocabulary, listening, and pronunciation in the context of the citizenship test. Students need to register for this website, but it use is free.

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services created this website with lesson plans for teaching citizenship classes. This is the #1 resource for all citizenship teachers. There's also helpful information about the test requirements and a copy of the N400 form.

I use this website for whole-class and individual phonics practice with my Pre-Literacy students. This is also a good website to use with adult learners who are just starting to learn how to use a computer because the site is user-friendly.

Teachers and students can use this website to design surveys, administer them, collect data, and analyze the data.

Teachers and students can use this free resource to design projects. They can create impactful social graphics, web pages, and short videos in minutes with Adobe Spark. There is a short tutorial video on this page to help beginners.

This video provides a tutorial on how to use Google Forms to create a survey. Students can watch this video, create their own surveys, collect data, analyze, and analyze it.

Teachers and students can use this website to create free graphic organizers, flyers, posters, presentations, graphics, and more. This website can be used for individual or group projects.

This is a video about how to format a Word document in APA format. This is a helpful resource for teachers and students who are writing research papers.

The Purdue Owl has a variety of resources to help teachers and students with the writing process. The general website has links to grammar rules, exercises, and research styles. This page specifically focuses on the APA formatting and style guide. Students can use these links when they are conducting and writing about their research.

Teachers and students can use Screencast-O-Matic for free to record their own videos. Then, those videos can be uploaded to Youtube or downloaded.

An educational success program provided this list of 10 ways for students to become empowered learners. This list would be great for using with the adult ELLs at my school because it focuses on the strategies that they can use to develop their learning skills and to be more effective learners.

"InCtrl is a series of free standards-based lessons that teach key digital citizenship concepts. These lessons, for students in grades 4-8 (also adaptable for ELLs of all ages),are designed to engage students through inquiry-based activities, and collaborative and creative opportunities."