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Bringing Content and Language
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Development Together
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History-Social Science Websites for English Learners
| Web Museums - Rich Context-Setting Tool |
- Chumash Indian Life
- http://www.sbnature.org/chumash/
- Sound files to hear the text
- Short, clear text enriched by graphics
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Wappo Indians of Napa County
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/wappo/
- Rebus story
- Large type is easier to read
- Support/Comprehension Questions
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Annie's Mission
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/annie/index.html
- Related to student's experience (importance of family)
- Infusion of primary language in the activity
- Comprehensible input - Brief segments of text
| Problem-based Activities - Support Language Experience |
- Your Mission: The Last Mission
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/the_last_mission/
- Performance Assessment
- Larger type
- Sheltered language (simple sentences, no idioms)
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Indus Valley Civilization
- http://members.aol.com/WERedu/PlanIndiaBasic.html
- Sheltered language in story or narrative form
- Glossary
- Castle Builder
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/castle_builder/
- Graphically rich
- Vocabulary
- Team structure creates oral language experience opportunities
- Utilizes non verbal skills
- Islamic Scientific Contribution
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/rosen_islamic_science/
- Questions to guide reading
- Clear, sheltered language
- Step-by-step language experience through writing
- Not Just a Man's War: Women in the American Civil War 1861-65
- http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/activity/manswar/index.html
- Dramatization
- Graphic organizers
- Vocabulary
- Connection to life experiences
- Documents and Symbols of American Freedom
- http://rims.k12.ca.us/symbols_freedom
- Direct teaching of assumed cultural knowledge
- GeoNet Game
- http://www.eduplace.com/geo/indexlo.html
- Self checking using the web quizzes
- Civics Lessons in Spanish
- http://www.civnet.org/civitas/panam/spanless.htm
- E-Pals Classroom Exchange
- http://www.epals.com/
- Pen pal exchange with students around the world, may be primary language
- Computer Generated Translations
- http://www.freetranslation.com/
- Create brief primary language selections from simple material with no idioms
- Conflict Clean-up: Relief Agencies in Action in a War Torn World
- http://rims.k12.ca.us/frandsen/index.html
- Real world connection to curriculum
- Personal relationship to learning
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