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Central Oregon Community College

Janice Alexander

Department: Adult Basic Education
Office: Madras (map)
Email: jalexander@cocc.edu
Phone: (541) 504-2935  x2935
Fax: (541) 504-2959
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How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School by the National Research Council at http://www.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=9853&page=31

GED--great resource for those of you preparing your students to take the GED, especially if they think that the GED is the end of the line, not just a step along the process: http://www.ncsall.net/fileadmin/resources/teach/beyond_ged.pdf.

Futures Channel—5-minute video clips of adults using skills in real-world situations at www.thefutureschannel.com

Math

Math--EMPower materials - check out the free examples at http://www.keypress.com/x5153.xml

Illuminations from NCTM (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) has some nice interactive lessons and activities, which might prompt other ideas for you: http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivitySearch.aspx

Math Forum also has a variety of stuff suitable for adult learners as well as kids: http://mathforum.org/pows/currentProblem.htm?group=GEOPOW

 

Science and Social Studies

http://video.pbs.org view Public Broadcasting shows, either clips or entire episodes of Nature, NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA, History Detectives (entire show only)

 

Spanish GED

www.conevyt.org.mx/mevyt/mevyt.html --not exactly but some online practice in basic skills in Spanish

D Connection:  www.litlink.ket.org