Final Reports Outline

Quinsigamond Community College Adult Community Learning Center Learner Persistence Project

List of Options

 Distance Learning  Take study books home  Set up a “Study at Home” Schedule  GED Practice Internet sites  VCR Tapes  PLATO  Class Homework  Tutor

Online Resources for GED Practice

General GED Practice and Info Sites:

 The American Council on Education: GED Testing Service All you ever wanted to know about the GED, its history, where to take it, what’s on it, etc (includes link to the GED Informational Bulletin) . You can also click on sample questions to take you to some online sample questions for GED practice http://www.acenet.edu/clll/ged/index.cfm

 Contemporary Books’ GED Site - http://www.mhcontemporary.com/pages/gedsatellite.php Supplemental information and tools for students and instructors who are using Contemporary's GED Satellites. This is the set of books we mainly use in class.

 GED Practice.com - Steck-Vaughn’s website whose goal is to sell books and also to familiarize students with the types of items on the GED test. http://www.gedpractice.com

 Test Prep Review – Contains review questions to prepare for many different standardized tests including the GED. http://www.testprepreview.com/

Reading Related Resources:

 Critical Reading: A Guide from Arkansas State University - The guide is designed to help students understand and engage in active reading and become better critical readers. http://www.clt.astate.edu/bdoyle/Notes%20on%20Critical%20Reading.htm

1  Vocabulary University –Activities designed to build vocabulary. Some are printable; others are interactive online. Site is geared for K-12 and activities but may be useful for GED students as well http://www.vocabulary.com/

 Awesome Online Stories - AwesomeStories.com uses the Internet to link its story content to hundreds of thousands of the world's best on-line primary sources. Enjoy an interactive learning experience as you see relevant maps, pictures, artifacts, manuscripts and documents, in context, within each story. Take advantage of human-based searches for a safe, fast and fun way to learn the real story behind historic events, famous people, heroic exploits, legends, disasters, movies, plus topics of current and general interest. http://www.awesomestories.com/

 Reading Strategies – Lots of excellent active reading strategies to help you focus and understand what you read http://www.richmond.edu/~terry/Middlebury/strategies.htm

 Vocabulary University – Lots of online activities to learn new words http://www.vocabulary.com/VUcampus.html

Math Related Resources:

 Create a Graph: Cool site with places for you to create all sorts of different graphs including line, bar, circle etc. http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Graphing/  No Matter What Shape Your Fractions Are In : Interesting website with neat online interactive activities involving pattern blocks and moving them around to show various aspects of fractions http://math.rice.edu/~lanius/Patterns/

 Online Algebra Tutor – Interesting computer based tutoring in basic algebra http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~neil/

 Ratio & Proportion Online – This site from the BBC has activities and problems to try and examples to look at of the way ratio and proportion are used in real life http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/ratioandproportion/ratio/

 Mrs Glosser’s Math Goodies: Lots of different types of math problems and help http://www.mathgoodies.com/

Sites with Writing Resources, Activities, etc.

 Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - interactive, menu-driven, online writer's guide and handbook. This goes through all stages of the writing process with hints, links, and interactive activities to try in each of the steps of the process. http://www.powa.org/

 Grammar Bytes - Interactive activities on English grammar as well as lots of downloadable handouts on various grammar topics http://www.chompchomp.com

2  Access Excellence: The Mystery Spot -This site subsection provides good prompts for writing exercises, nicely combining scientific discovery and mystery/adventure in a tone suitable for adults. http:// www.accessexcellence.org/AE/mspot

Sites with Social Studies Resources, Activities, etc.

 The Change Agent – A publication whose mission is to provide a teaching resource that enables teachers and learners to make civic participation and social justice part of their teaching and learning. Each issue explores a different social justice topic through news articles, classroom activities, poems, cartoons, interviews, and printed and web-based resources. Available online free and offline by subscription or through SABES. http://www.nelrc.org/changeagent/

 Professional Cartoon Index – Lots of editorial cartoons to use in class http://www.cagle.com/

 CNN Story Archives (Social Studies Themes) with activities: This site has tons of different stories taken directly from the news along with lots of various questions and activities to test your comprehension of the material. After you read the story, look to the left for a list of possible activities on comprehension, sequencing, vocabulary etc

 Roadmap to the US Constitution: Website with lots of info on the US Constitution in user friendly lay out. http://library.thinkquest.org/11572/index.html

 Project Vote Smart: Interactive website about elections – how they work, what the issues are, how to know who and what to vote for. Good for political science content http://www.vote-smart.org/index.htm

 Earth Seeds: Interactive site on environmental issues related to both social studies and science http://www.geocities.com/earthseedsweb/

 World Wildlife Finder – Related to both social studies and science, this site has a huge database of animals from all over the world http://www.worldwildlife.org/wildfinder/

 Economic Adventures: Fun activities and links to help you learn about the economics area of social studies http://www.economicadventure.org/index.cfm

 Do History: This very cool site is interactive and has real text from a woman’s diary from the time of the American Revolution http://www.dohistory.com/

 Facing History/Facing Ourselves: Very cool website about human rights issues in history. http://www.facinghistory.org/

 History Channel: Website for the excellent cable TV station showcasing lots of info and extra activities for students about all different areas of history http://www.thehistorychannel.com/

Sites with Science Resources, Activities etc

3  How Stuff Works – great illustrations & explanations http://www.howstuffworks.com/

 Lincs Science & Numeracy Collection - annotated links to sites useful for teaching and learning about science and numeracy. The collection emphasizes the ways in which science and math are important to understanding the world. http://www.literacynet.org/sciencelincs/home.html

 Ask Dr Universe: Cute site with interesting and user friendly info on many different science topics. Click on the question to see the answer. http://www.wsu.edu/DrUniverse/

 Scientists at Work: Site which highlights the scientific method and how it works to advance scientific knowledge http://www.netrox.net/~labush/saw.htm

 The Why Files: The science behind the news. http://whyfiles.org/