Adult education critical thinking resources for Microsoft OneDrive

Critical Thinking, EFL - ESL - ELD, Science

This presentation contains a 30 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT format with teacher’s notes.Shark Week is celebrating its 30th anniversary this week. Shark Week has inspired generations of marine biologists and draws rare attention to individual researchers and their subjects, but shark week also presents a conflict in the scientific community regarding shark conservation. A new study showed that the ominous music in nature documentaries actually hinder shark conservation efforts by cast

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Ugly - The wrong side of the gene pool - ESL adult and kid conversation

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This presentation contains a 38 slide lesson in Google slides format with teacher’s notes. Ugly is: subjective, loaded with personal preference, closely related to culture and public opinion (and in the last decades, shaped by media), relative to what we find familiar and understand, has a strong emotional valence, constantly changing, and… Always negative and associated with evil and fear.Subjective conversation topics are wonderful to teach in ESL classes with mixed ethnicities, but also work

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Nostalgia – are you a nostalgic person? ESL adult Google slides lesson

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This presentation contains a 28 slide conversation lesson in Google slides format with student worksheets, an activity, and teacher’s notes.Nostalgia was coined by a 17th-century medical student. It’s from the Greek origin meaning: “an ache for home”. Until the mid-1900s it was considered a medical disease that could (and often did) end fatally.Today however nostalgia is regarded as an important emotion and a mental state absolutely central to the human experience.Researchers today believe that

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11th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Taboos and how to challenge them - ESL adult conversation in Google slides

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This presentation contains a 30 slide PowerPoint lesson in Google slides format with a worksheet and teacher’s notes.This lesson discusses taboos – please review the preview and read the description carefully before buying it, some teachers might not feel comfortable discussing this topic with their conversation class!Taboos play a natural and necessary part in shared moral psychology since human behavior is rarely governed by rational decision making. Taboos have a huge effect on our lives, the

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12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Masks - ESL adult conversation lesson in Google slides format

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This presentation contains a 32 slide lesson in Google slides format with an activity and teacher’s notes.Masks have been inseparable from human history, as soon as we knew who we were, we wanted to become someone else.They are a fantastic conversation topic because: 1. They send out more than one message.2. They sometimes reveal more than they hide3. They are both fun and dangerous.4. The right to wear a mask can conflict with public safety.5. Masks aren’t only physical.6. Mask exists more than

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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When Toys were fun - ESL adult conversation lesson in Google slides format

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This presentation contains a 35 slide lesson in Google slides format with 2 worksheets and teacher’s notes. Toys are a large part of our lives. They’re entangled in our childhood memories and in our family’s history. Toys have an emotional function as well as an entertaining and educational one.It includes:· Favorite toys · Classic toys – when were they made?· The History of toys and what made them survive· How are toys important to a child’s development? · What gives a toy a lasting value?· Wil

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7th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Marriage – for and against - ESL, EFL, ELL adult and kid conversation

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Critical Thinking, EFL - ESL - ELD, Oral Communication

This presentation contains a 49 slide lesson in Google slides format with Teacher’s notes and a quiz worksheet that accompany the lesson. Let me start by mentioning that I have been happily married for the past 24 years. The idea for this lesson started with an argument in my ESL class about whether or not a growing rate of young people is choosing a substitute for the traditional marriage format. I wanted to check this theory out and found a flood of information in the form of countless new res

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Caricatures – The right to express an opinion ESL, EFL, ELL adult conversation

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Character Education, Critical Thinking, EFL - ESL - ELD

This presentation contains a 44 slide PowerPoint lesson in editable PPT formatIn Europe, the satirical French magazine ‘Charlie Hebdo’ has been on the news along with the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten and their ‘Muhammad cartoons controversy’ in 2005. In sep. 2nd 2016, they published two caricatures that literally turned our stomachs. These caricatures sparked a debate about caricatures and the freedom of expression. It Includes:- The origin of caricatures- the difference between a cartoon a

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8th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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Irreplaceable? ESL adult conversation lesson in google slides format

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Critical Thinking, EFL - ESL - ELD, Grammar

This presentation contains a 17 slide lesson in Google slides format with a student’s worksheet and teacher’s notes.We all have objects that we feel are irreplaceable, some more than others, but what happens when we lose them? Can technology help? The grammar part of this lesson focuses on using adjectives to describe objects in their correct order and describing their exact location.The conversation part of this lesson concentrates on the reason we keep sentimental objects, why they are so prec

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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education

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