Adult Basic Education and Cross-Curricular Resources

Teaching Channel

“Teaching Channel is a thriving online community where teachers can watch, share, and learn diverse techniques to help every student grow.” The site offers videos of classroom lessons in all subject areas and grade levels being taught, as well as sharing of best professional practices such as peer coaching and collaboration.

Click here for the link to the Teaching Channel site.

Read Theory

Are you looking for more detailed information on your students’ reading ability than what the TABE can provide? Read Theory might be just what you need. It is a completely free site that uses algorithms to select appropriate reading pieces that are just challenging enough for users. Teachers are able to track what individual students are doing and the growth that they experience as they engage in the reading exercises.

Click here for the link to the Read Theory site.

Khan Academy

This non-profit site provides video tutorials on everything from reducing fractions to the Bill of Rights, to the progressive tax system. Students can work their ways through series of lessons or search for tutorials on particular concepts.

Click here for the link to the Khan Academy site.

TED-Ed.com

TED-Ed provides video lessons on a wide variety of topics, organized by content area. The lessons are customizable, and users can elect to have sub-titles included in many different languages. The lessons are suitable for both ABE/ASE and ELAA students.

Click here for the link to the TED-Ed site.

GCF Learn Free.org

This site provides tutoring in reading, math, and technology. Learners choose whether to work through a planned progression of lessons or to work on a specific concept.

Click here for the link to the GCF Learn Free site.

NewsELA

This is a free resource, though there is a subscription version that additional features. Appropriate for all content areas, NEWSELA offers current news events, speeches, and text sets. Each article also has a quiz associated with it. The particularly useful thing about NEWSELA, though, is that it helps with differentiation. The reading level can be adjusted to meet the varied needs of students, allowing for discussion on the same topic while making the text accessible and engaging for a variety of abilities.

Click here for the link to the NewsELA site.

Read Write Think

As with many educational resources, Read Write Think is geared toward a K-12 audience. However, if you can put on your adult educator filter, you’ll find a wealth of resources – for you and for students – to hone their reading, writing, and thinking skills. Paid for by endowments from organizations such as National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE), this is a free site, allowing downloads and interactive learning.

Click here for the link to the Read Write Think site.

Adult Learning Zone

Brought to us by Designers for Learning, this site provides lesson plans in all four content areas. The lessons are geared toward adult learners and can be selected by both content area as well as learning (grade) level.

Click here for the link to the Learning Zone site.

BrainPOP

While BrainPOP is geared toward middle and high school students, much of the interactive and highly engaging lessons and activities are quite appropriate for adult learners, too. The lessons, are accessible from mobile apps as well as from internet-connected computers, making the resource highly accessible for students who may not have home computers. Additionally, teachers have the option of choosing the state standards and then selecting lessons aligned to those standards. Lessons are available for all subject areas. This source is suitable for all levels of HSE and ELAA students.

Click here for the link to the BrainPOP site.

The Learning Network

The “New York Times” provides this resource to teachers, creating contextualized lessons for learners in all content areas – both ABE/ASE and ELAA. Teachers can access up to 10 lesson plans per month for free. There are also Articles of the Day, Words of the Day, News Quizzes, Student Opinions, writing prompts, and more.

Click here for the link to the Learning Network site.

Smithsonian Institution

As noted on their site, “This video series, Explore with Smithsonian Experts, connects students and teachers with the skill and technique of Smithsonian experts who describe their work at our nation's museums. In each short film, experts introduce new ways to observe, record, research and share, while using real artifacts and work experiences.” This site is appropriate for all content areas, with a wealth of science and social studies resources.

Click here for the link to the Smithsonian site.

Crash Course

Crash Course is a YouTube channel that provides video lessons on topics in all content areas. Delivered in a conversational way – with a bit of humor thrown in – the lessons are highly accessible and engaging.

Click here for the link to the Crash Course site.

Consumer.gov

This site is useful for both ABE/ASE and ELAA students. Lessons are provided in managing money, credit, and protecting oneself against identity theft and scams. There are several items geared toward immigrant users, looking at scams that target English language learners. Additionally, the videos provided on the YouTube playlist (click HERE to view), feature a wide variety of consumer-related issues. New material is being added often.

Click here for the link to the Consumer site.

HippoCampus

Brought to you by the National Repository of Online Content (NROC), HippoCampus provides free lesson videos in all content areas. The video available HERE shows how to set up playlists for your students to access, allowing you to utilize additional resources outside of instructional time.

Click here for the link to the HippoCampus site.

Eureka! AGORA

The Ohio Literacy Resource Center, housed at Kent State University, provides this “assemblage of resources” which is geared specifically to meet the needs of adult learners and educators. According to the site, “In Archimedes' time the agora was a marketplace where folks could find almost anything they needed. In the Eureka! AGORA you will be able to find an "Assemblage of Great Online Resources for Adults." In other words, you will be able to find a wide variety of resources to use in your classroom. Once at the site, simply click on a market booth to begin your "shopping."

Click here for the link to the Eureka site.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office.The Library preserves and provides access to a rich, diverse and enduring source of knowledge to inform, inspire and engage you in your intellectual and creative endeavors. Whether you are new to the Library of Congress or an experienced researcher, we have a world-class staff ready to assist you online and in person.

Click here for the link to the Library Of Congress site.

CALM

Teaching is messy! There is no one right way to address all the different levels within a single classroom. Teachers need a framework, a guide to use so that they have an organized plan for moving all students along a developmental continuum from Level A/B to D/E (according to the CCRSAE). The Adult Numeracy Center at TERC has developed such a framework. CALM (Curriculum for Adults Learning Math) features units that focus on building students’ conceptual understanding of core math concepts before delving deeper. Each unit includes complete lesson plans, formative assessments for each lesson, and a performance-based assessment. CALM also focuses on the CCRSAE, including the key shifts and the Standards for Mathematical Practice.

Click here for the link to the Calm site.

Mathigon

Mathigon contains courses, activities and resources for the entire mathematics curriculum, all of which are completely free to use. We've made our content as flexible and accessible as possible – no matter how you like to teach, or which technology you and your students have access to.

Click here for the link to the Mathigon site.

Live Worksheets

Liveworksheets allows you to transform your traditional printable worksheets (doc, pdf, jpg...) into interactive online exercises with self-correction, which we call "interactive worksheets".
Students can do the worksheets online and send their answers to the teacher. This is good for the students (it's motivating), for the teacher (it saves time) and for the environment (it saves paper).
Additionally, our interactive worksheets take full advantage of the new technologies applied to education: they may include sounds, videos, drag and drop exercises, join with arrows, multiple choice... and even speaking exercises, that the students must do using the microphone.

Click here for the link to the Liveworksheets site.

EdPuzzle

Make any video your lesson. Choose a video, give it our magic touch and track your students' comprehension. Check if students are watching your videos, how many times they're watching each section, and if they're understanding the content. Introduce students to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It's easy to add your own voice narration and questions!

Click here for the link to the EdPuzzle site.

United Shades of America

'United shades of America' follows comedian and political provocateur W. Kamau Bell as he explores communities across America to understand the unique challenges they face. Using humor to soften his experiences, Bell willingly subjects himself to awkward situations -- like attending a cross-burning, hate-mongering Ku Klux Klan session -- to demonstrate "the many diverse and colorful definitions of America," CNN says. Bell also visits a gated retirement community, experiences inner-city policing, spends time with spring break revelers, speaks to prison inmates, and travels to the Last Frontier.

Click here for the link to the United Shades of America site.

TikTok Tech Tools!

There are so many great resources on social media sites, and TikTok is no exception. I stumbled across this gem of a list of resources. Check out the many wonderful sites listed on the spreadsheet!

Click here for the link to the Tech Tools spreadsheet.

Personal & Workplace Success Skills Library

The Personal and Workplace Success Skills Library is a collection of resources to guide the integration of personal and workplace success skills into curriculum and instruction, advising and coaching, assessment, and program design. These resources were selected for adult education, higher education, workforce development, and career and technical education programs serving adult and older youth learners and workers, including English language learners.

Click here for the link to the Library site.

The Change Agent

An Adult Education Resource for Social Justice. Need online teaching materials that address the issues that are on students’ minds? Need resources that build literacy, math, digital, and work skills through meaningful activities? We have that! FREE during these challenging times!
You can use your PL funds to pay for this subscription.

Click here for the link to the Change Agent site.

Stanford University

This resource has sets of teaching resources that exemplify high-quality instruction for ELLs across three content areas. The resources will correspond to the widely-adopted Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics and to the Next Generation Science Standards.

Click here for the link to the Stanford site.

CNN.com (United Shades of America)

'United Shades of America' follows comedian and political provocateur W. Kamau Bell as he explores communities across America to understand the unique challenges they face.

Click here for the link to the CNN site.

CERCLL

The Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language and Literacy is a Title VI Language Resource Center that supports research related to language teaching and learning and provides educators with quality resources for teaching as well as professional development for the meaningful integration of culture, literacy, and world language study. Explore our website and learn more about how CERCLL is working to develop language capacity in the US.

Click here for the link to the CERCLL site.

Center for News Literacy

News Literacy is a curriculum developed at Stony Brook University in New York over the past decade. It is designed to help students develop critical thinking skills in order to judge the reliability and credibility of information, whether it comes via print, television or the Internet. This is a particularly important skill in the Digital Age, as everyone struggles to deal with information overload and the difficulty in determining the authenticity of reports. In the Stony Brook model, students are taught to evaluate information primarily by analyzing news as well as new forms of information that are often mistaken for journalism.

Click here for the link to the News Literacy site.

Virtual Readability Lab

We are studying individualized reading formats

Can different font attributes create a more enjoyable and efficient reading experience? We welcome you to participate in our short studies. Each study will teach you something about how you can read better - whether by recommending a font or a character spacing that you will enjoy more or read faster.

Click here for the link to the Readability Lab site.

GeoGebra for Teaching and Learning Math

Free digital tools for class activities, graphing, geometry, collaborative whiteboard, and more.

Click here for the link to the GeoGebra site.

Reading Skills for Today's Adult

This site offers many resources for reading at multiple levels. The texts are leveled and have recordings to go along with each. There are many more resources to aide you in your reading instruction.

Click here for the link to the Reading Skills site.

Common Lit

CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.

Click here for the link to the Common Lit site.

Creative Commons

Creative Commons is a nonprofit organization that helps overcome legal obstacles to the sharing of knowledge and creativity to address the world’s pressing challenges.

Click here for the link to the Creative Commons site.

Click here for the access to the UDL Padlet.

Civic Online Reasoning

The COR curriculum provides free lessons and assessments that help you teach students to evaluate online information that affects them, their communities, and the world.

Click here for the link to the Civic Online site.

GED Testing Service

Resources for Educators and Administrators.

Click here for the link to the GED Testing Service site.

Street Law

Site that has publications and resources that were mentioned in the Civic Engagement webinars provided by ADE-AES.

Click here for the link to the Street Law site.

PBS Learning Media

Arizona PBS and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for Arizona teachers like you.

Click here for the link to the Street Law site.

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