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This lesson was designed to provide an application lesson for a math unit on probability. Students should have already been exposed to some work with benchmark fractions, decimals and percents, especially 50% and multiples of one quarter. This could be used towards the beginning of a unit…
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This contextualized lesson was designed as part of a science unit on weather, climate, and climate change, with the recognition that an understanding of basic probability and statistics is required to understand the scientific concepts. This lesson could also be used in a math unit on probability…
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This sample contextualized lesson is a Level A adaptation of the original Heat Wave lesson which can be found here. The context for this lesson is climate and climate change, and it focuses on comparing sets of data, specifically the number of heat wave days in Massachusetts in…
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Community Food Security: What Part Do We Play in Our Current Food Systems?
This CCR Standards-aligned unit was created in 2015 for ABE students at GLE 5-6. You may use and adapt these materials to fit the students and circumstances in your program.
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This brief video defines what a curriculum is and how having one in place helps teachers. The video also defines the parts of a curriculum, including scope and sequence, instructional units, lessons, and more. (Adult Numeracy Center at TERC)
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This sample contextualized lesson focuses on using box-and-whisker charts to compare sets of data in the context of exploring climate change. The lesson includes a lesson plan and teacher materials as well as student materials/handouts. A companion ZIP file containing PowerPoint slides for the…
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This seven-unit curriculum includes an instructor guide and student workbook for teaching ESOL in the context of introducing students to customer service skills. Each unit addresses specific skills in three distinct categories: customer service, job readiness, and grammar and pronunciation. The…
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The Integrating Career Awareness in the ABE & ESOL Classroom (ICA) curriculum guide is a ready-to-use, flexible curriculum that prepares adult educators to incorporate career awareness and planning into their instructional and counseling activities. The lessons and handouts can be…
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Empower Your Future is a life skills, career development, and employability curriculum guide developed by the Commonwealth Corporation in collaboration with the Massachusetts Department of Youth Services. It comprises five domains: Beginning Your Journey, Know Yourself, Exploring Careers,…
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The CUNY CareerKit Project is designed to support a range of literacy programming as it intersects with career exploration, planning, and preparation. Each CareerKit focuses on one of 10 occupational sectors or clusters, such as health care, technology, and community and social services. The…
