Home Teacher/Tutors Lesson Plans and Activities
- Teaching Activities: Quick & Easy
Ready-to-go activities, and sites easily adapted for classroom use.
- Complete Curricula
Each curricula contains a series of complete lesson plans, meant to be used as a unit. Many can be also used as single lessons.
- Teacher-Created and Classroom-Tested Lessons
Five great examples of lesson plans using the Health & Literacy Special Collection.
- Teaching Activities: Quick & Easy
- Project Care: Case Studies, Multimedia and Projects for English Language Learners
Project Care is a website for high-intermediate to advanced English language learners who want to learn about caring for others while improving their communication. The website provides audio and video for listening practice, vocabulary development, projects and links to related-health information.
http://projectcare.worlded.org/
- Tobacco and Literacy Education Project
Three lessons, that can be used separately or together, convey important information about the health hazards of tobacco use and secondhand smoke, while building basic reading, math and research skills. The lessons, created in collaboration with an advisory group of adult education teachers and students, and tested in ABE and GED classrooms, are designed to be participatory, to provide skills practice, and to deliver tobacco and health information relevant to both smokers and nonsmokers.
http://tobaccoliteracy.jsi.com/
- Picture Stories for Adult ESL Health Literacy
These comic-style picture stories can be used to promote discussion among even the lowest levels of ESOL or literacy students. Students can improve speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills as they learn about stress, depression, access to health care, and more.
http://www.cal.org/caela/esl_resources/Health/healthindex.html - Health Lessons from The Educator’s Reference Desk
Links to a wide variety of health lessons written for grades K-8. Please check each lesson’s suitability for adult learners.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Health - Lesson on Buying Medicines Using Drugstore.com
This lesson allows students to use the commercial site, drugstore.com, to learn about medicines, while also working on computer and research skills. It can be adapted to a variety of levels.
http://www.geocities.com/sgaer/occatesol/drugstore.htm - Liquid Medicines: Taking the Right Dose
This hands-on teaching activity could be used in a classroom, a health fair, or other non-formal settings. Participants examine a variety of spoons and dosing containers and learn how to measure a correct dose.
http://healthliteracy.worlded.org/doses/index.htm - Planning a Healthy Menu Using the Food Pyramid
A detailed lesson plan for planning a complete and healthy meal.
http://www.eduref.org/cgi-bin/printlessons.cgi/
Virtual/Lessons/Health/Nutrition/NUT0009.html - California Distance Learning Project
Short readings with audio and video options include vocabulary, spelling and reading comprehension activities.
http://www.cdlponline.org/index.cfm
Many topics are available: choose Health and Safety or Families for health topics. - Medline Plus
These interactive tutorials teach about health topics with animated graphics and simple text. Also available in Spanish. For more plain language health information go to the Health Topics page and click on "Easy-to-Read."
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html - Email Projects
This site contains several e-mail and web projects that allow students to share information and explore certain topics. Health-related projects include the Food Project with colorful pictures, the Home Remedies Project, and a Virtual Visit to a health services social worker.
- Visiting the Doctor: Lessons in Language and Culture
This site is for ESOL students who want to practice the language they need to get health care. There are practice dialogues, readings, puzzles, quizzes and other activities. Students can also send in their own writings and see them on the site. Also tips for teachers on how to use the site.
http://literacynet.org/vtd/ - Child Safety: A Healthy Start
This site teaches basic tips on how to keep your children safe. The units include fire safety, poisons, when you leave home, and emergencies. Includes pictures, definitions and checklists. Audio option if you have RealPlayer.
http://www.hudrivctr.org/childsaf/chintro.htm - Complete Curricula
- The El Paso Collaborative Health Literacy Curriculum
This contains lessons on diabetes, nutrition, breast health, menopause, lead poisoning, and household hazards. Included is information on creating community collaborations to support health education in literacy settings.
http://www.worlded.org/us/
health/docs/elpaso/index.htm - Breast and Cervical Cancer Curriculum
This comprehensive 12-lesson curriculum guides teachers and learners through the topics of breast and cervical cancer, prevention, screening and detection, and taking action in one’s community to teach others. Teacher support materials help to prepare teachers and students emotionally for these topics, and offer ways to link with one’s community and find resources. Literacy skills addressed include: vocabulary development, grouping and organizing, writing, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and more.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/heal/ - From the First Ash: The History, Economics & Hazards of Tobacco
This is a comprehensive tobacco education curriculum designed for native and non-native English speakers. Individual units can be used in adult basic education classes or workshops, or the whole sequence can be taught as an eight-week course.
http://www.worlded.org/us/health/docs/tobacco/ - Teacher-Created and
Classroom-Tested Lessons Teacher/student teams were award mini-grants to develop learning activities using the Health & Literacy Special Collection. Five examples are made available for other teachers to see and use.
- Getting Good Advice
The intermediate EL/Civics class used the LINCS website to identify different sources for health care information and advice (friends and family/word of mouth, doctors and nurses/health care providers, and national health organizations). Students learned to recognize different sources of health information and share how they learn from each.
- Presentations on Breast Cancer
Four ESOL students used the LINCS website to obtain information about breast cancer and used this information to prepare an oral presentation for the introductory level class. They did research on the website and with that information prepared posters and transparencies to do the oral presentation.
- A Research Project Using LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection
Working in small groups of 2-3, students used the LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection to gain basic knowledge of an issue relevant to their lives. Learners fulfilled certain requirements and finished with an oral presentation to the class. These groups then functioned as leader/tutor to new groups of 2-3 students to research new topics.
- Stress is a Part of Life
Two students recommended from a GED class form a teaching team with a health literacy teacher. They discussed which topic they would teach to a GED class and decide on stress. After surveying the classes on the topic, they became familiar with the Internet via the LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection. They used it to research the topic and help prepare the lesson. Together with the teacher, they introduced the topics and lead discussion as well as giving assistance to those needing help with the Web.
- Students-Directed Projects on Health
In a 5-week seminar, 10 advanced ESL students used the LINCS Health & Literacy Special Collection Web Site to find relevant health information to share with intermediate ESL classes in our program. Students working in pairs/groups of 3, have decided on different ways (skit, game, quiz, etc.) to present the information to the classes.
e-for-easy materials and activities include some audio and visuals, and do not rely only on the ability to read print.