Curricula & Lesson Plans
These web-based lesson plans and curricula were created by LAC staff members and by participants in LAC professional development workshops and institutes. They reflect a variety of beliefs about teaching and learning. At the LAC, we believe that learning is best enhanced when technology is integrated into instruction by using participatory, project-based learning strategies.
We have not changed or maintained these lesson plans since they were posted by their original authors in 1998-2001. Nevertheless, you may find some of these lesson plans useful in planning curriculum to meet the learning needs of your students.
General (for everyone!)
Surfing for Substance A Professional Development Guide to Integrating the World Wide Web into Adult Literacy Instruction includes several web-based lesson plans:
- Staff Development on the Internet: Playing to Learn
- Search Engine Scavenger Hunt
- Using the Net to Find Information about the Pyramids of Egypt
- African-American Inventors
- Virtual Field Trip to the Lower Eastside Tenement Museum
Surfing for Substance Institute Lesson Plan Collection The 9 lessons here were created by participants in the LAC’s Surfing for Substance Institute an intensive three-day training on integrating technology into instruction for adult educators. Topics range from geography to math and children’s literature.
- Internet Basics Scavenger Hunt
- The Alphabet Game—instructions for a fun icebreaker, easily adaptable for BE, ESOL, or any other group of learners.
- Video and Writing: Writing a Script
- Making a Video
- Dialogue Poems
- Composing a List Poem
- Publishing Online Book Reviews
- Getting Acquainted This lesson, though part of the Gallery of ESOL Lesson Plans, can be adapted for use by native speakers.
- American Museum of Natural History’s Rose Center This lesson, though part of the Gallery of ESOL Lesson Plans, can be adapted for use by native speakers.
ESOL
- Web Resources Related to Latinos and the Spanish Language, compiled by the LAC instructional technology staff for La Familia Technology Week 2002
- Gallery of ESOL Lesson Plans
The 8 lessons posted at the gallery were developed by participants of the 1999-2000 ESOL series at the LAC. Four are listed below. The others can be accessed through the Gallery’s main page; they are also listed elsewhere on this page.
- Phrasal Verbs
- Weather Information Online
- Video and Speaking: Tell Me What You See
- Video and Reading: Strip Story
- Video and Listening: Cloze Exercise
- Superlatives & American Popular Culture
Workforce Development
- Researching a Company Online
- Researching Careers @ Ask Jeeves
- Researching Careers @ America’s Career Infonet
- Job Readiness Scavenger Hunt
- Scavenger Hunt: General Outlook for the U.S. Job Market
- Using monster.com
- Using America’s Job Bank
- Using Microsoft Excel to Interpret Data from America’s Job Bank
- Let’s Talk About Work!
- Let’s Create Job Biographies!
- Salary Calculator
Children, Youth, and Family Literacy
- Children’s Author Fact-Finding Safari
- Millenium Fact-Finding Mission
- Poetry Scavenger Hunt
- Looking for Mr. Potato Head
- Write a Letter to Children of the 31st Century
- How to Create a Time Capsule