Weekly Activities

This week's fun file.  

Play Dementia, a trivia game, and see if you can beat my score of 15720.   Email your final score and I'll post the scores next week.

This week's current event.

This article is from the Valencia County News Bulletin and is about 85 year-old Neil Lang who was recently beaten and burglarized in Meadow Lake.   Email me your thoughts about crime in Valencia County.  
Responses will be posted next week.

This week's political cartoon.

Problem of the Day at FreeMathHelp.com

Introduction

New students must complete this section.

Syllabus - This includes all of the information you need about this course.  Please print it out and keep it somewhere handy.

Lesson 1: Introduction to the GED

This lesson introduces you to the GED test, its requirements and accommodations.  It also includes information on studying math, math anxiety and your first essay topic.

Enrichment Materials

Learning Styles -Record the amount of time you spend using these resource.  Email me a paragraph about what you learned about yourself.

Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire

Personal Learning Style Inventory

The Active Learning Site ___VARK

These inventories can help you discover how you learn best and how you can improve your learning by using strategies that are best for your learning style. 

Typing (Keyboarding) - Record the amount of time you  spend using these programs.

Free Touch Typing Program      Learn to Type

These programs are for people who want to improve their typing skills.  You can download the software, but you don't have to.

All Touch Typing Tutors

This is a great resource!  There is shareware that you can try and then purchase later, freeware that you can download and use at no charge, and a few more on-line typing tutors.  Let me know which programs you like the best!

Microsoft Office Skills - Record the amount of time you spend practicing your skills.

Office 2000                             On-Line Tutorial for MS Word                 Word 2000                 More Word 2000

Many offices require at least some basic knowledge of Microsoft Office.  These sites will help you acquire the skills you need. 

Math Lessons

Math in Daily Life: Introduction and Probability and Statistics

Fractions

Geometry

Writing Lessons

Grammar Topics

Writing a Good Paragraph

Writing an Essay

GED Essay Topics

Social Studies Lessons

20th Century America

February: African American History Month

US News and World Report "The People's Vote."   The topic is: Which documents do you think were the most influential in American history?  There are 100 documents you can view and vote on.  Knowledge of historical documents such as the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, the Federalist Papers and landmark Supreme Court decisions.  When you view the documents, the site provides a short description that is very helpful for understanding these documents and where they fit in our history.  Please take at least 20 minutes to review this site.  Then email me and let me know what you thought of the information.

This week's current event. 

This week's political cartoon.

Science Lessons

Frog Dissection

MyClassroom at Visionlearning

Reading and Literature Lessons

GED Practice

McGraw-Hill/Contemporary GED Satellites On-line Learning Centers - This site has sample chapters of the books for each subject, practice tests and other on-line resources.  Just click on the subject you want to study and see what they have to offer.  If you take any tests or quizzes, there is an option to email me the results.  Please send any scores to me, tkitzrow@unm.edu.

GEDPractice.com - This site is practice for the test.  Please email me and let me know which tests you did and how you did.