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This worksheet offers a great (and creative, too) activity for you to try with young learners.

Another nice page you can share with your students where they can see and learn some ways for helping to make even a small change.

Suggestions for using technology with learning literacy in the k-5 classroom.

This site goes over the general facts about NSA surveillance programs. It describes the basic metadata that is collected for US phone calls:"the telephone number of the phones making and receiving the call, and how long the call lasted." It mentions the NSA program PRISM which collects emails, instant messages, and both private and public facebook data. It also mentions the program XKEYSCORE which gathers massive amounts of data from internet traffic. This FAQ also mentions what sort of things can be revealed by metadata and why critics of these programs find them alarming and illegal. This is a great article that covers the basic issues and concerns associated with NSA and mass surveillance. You could have students read it as a way to prep them for a project or discussion on this topic.

We begin this chapter by inventing our own story based on the boxed paragraphs below. Before reading any further, cover all of the boxed paragraphs with a piece of paper. You are going to read these paragraphs, which are extracts from a short story, one at a time. At each stage of the reading ask yourself the following questions as a guide to making links between the separate paragraphs...

i choose this site because i think that human right not only means to provide education.In our country most of the people with degrees are job less and due to this are suffering from poverty.This site tells us about the human right research on poverty and inequality.

This website has a small section/page about "Children and Human Rights". It lists and describes some of the human rights that are violated in many children's lives. It's a good page with facts about Human Rights for children.

In the nineteenth century, the Grammar Translation Method predominated ESL/EFL teaching. In that era, translating literary texts from the second/foreign language to the students' native language was one of the main learning activities. But when this method was replaced by the Structuralism Approach, during the 1960s to the end of 1970s, literature was no longer used. Structuralism Approach was concerned with correctness of grammatical form and not with content, interpretation of the written word or style.

I lthink this "The Bill of Rights Lesson" would be very useful and interesting for students to learn and for a teacher to perform. The information of the lesson is quite intelligible, so it can be easily worked with. Many ways of doing it are also suggested (including reading activities, solving puzzles, bingo games, true/false exercises etc.) which make the lesson fascinating and the students more interested in the problem discussed.

LearningApps.org is a Web 2.0 application, to support learning and teaching processes with small interactive modules.

In 1845 Frederick Douglass published what was to be the first of his three autobiographies: the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.

This lesson plan is prepared with an overview of the topic with some questions to guide reading comprehension. I think you can find many ideas for developing your culture and literature classes.

Film English by Kieran Donaghy features a media lesson on Human Rights and street art. This time a lesson is designed based on an award-winning video for Amnesty International by Carlos Lascano. On this section, you can find the link for the video to project in the classroom and a worksheet with activities mainly designed to generate discussion among the members of the group. The activity is intended for students in upper-intermediate level onwards. These activities will reinforce the listening and speaking skills.

"Human Rights Watch defends the rights of people worldwide." Students can investigate, on this site, about abuses happening worldwide and use the information for a debate in the classroom. They can also try to find a solution for a specific problem like they wold at the UN. Another idea would be to write reports or compare what's going on in a specific place around the world with their own reality.

I teach children and this page has very good videos, activities, flashcards and songs for you an your students. It's awesome!

Thanks for telling me about his on our Ning. Now I've added it to my Diigo with a young_learners tag!

English language teaching in India has for a long time treadled the traditional path of Language Teaching and Learning. The path leads us through teaching vocabulary and grammar textbooks, cramming students with a considerable amount of exercises and then evaluating their accomplishments through consecutive exams. Song have been in integral part of human life and experience since ages. They have also become an integral part of our language experience, and if use in coordination with a language lesson they can be a great value.

I agree Dipak! Music uses a different part of our brains that helps us retain information better. I am interested in finding music I can use in class that was not designed for pre-schoolers. Adults in my class should not be singing songs for little kids! Thank-you.

Hundreds of free English exercises to learn english online : grammar exercises, verbs, songs and listening with videos, vocabulary . Learning English Language. English second language, English foreign language, ESL , EFL, IELTS

The identification of the different shapes are mentioned, Shapes of some of the traffic signal are covered and about the mathematical shapes are also mentioned.

The learner with his or her personal contribution forms part of he milieu thus creating an interaction that becomes the individual as well as the shared learning experiences. Some experiential activities such as drama, role-play, incidents, games etc. are mentioned in this article. www.Move learning.com

With the invention of new and innovative technologies in the modern era,it has become very comfortable for the language teachers and teaching English does not have to be a difficult task at all. The Internet TESL Journal by Michael Morgan suggests the ways how we can utilise technology in ESL class for better results.It throws light on its various aspects and problems by which a teacher can make good use of it.

Here you are finding over one hundred great ideas from teachers across the world. We could develop their critical and creative thinking. So, let's try one!