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Teachers and parents are provided with twenty activities to encourage communication. Additional strategies are also listed to expand expressive communication.
http://aac.unl.edu/intervention/Encourage_Communication.html
Find great information about foods and nutrition at this site. A new tip regarding health and nutrition is presented each day.
http://www.eatright.org/cps/rde/xchg/ada/hs.xsl/index.html
Ready for independent living? This online database allows you to search for available apartments in larger cities throughout the United States.
http://www.apartmentguide.com/
Teachers and students may download Audacity software for FREE at this site. Audacity is a free program that allows students to create blogs so that teachers may incorporate them into their curriculum.
http://www.download.com/Audacity/3000-2170_4-10058117.html
Learn how to read labels on food to determine what is really in the food you eat.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/tn/Parents/nutritionlabel.html
Unbiased reports and information about various products and services.
http://www.consumerreports.org/main/home.jsp
Children ages 9-11 are given the opportunity to see how ads are created, how the customer is enticed to buy, what is fantasy, and what is reality.
http://pbskids.org/dontbuyit/
Reading and writing activities for birth to preschool including story ending, funny sounds, rhyme time, and more.
http://www.ed.gov/Family/RWN/Activ97/early.html
At this website, the University of Illinois Extention Service addresses several strategies for building stronger families.
http://www.urbanext.uiuc.edu/familyworks/respect-00.html
Tips for teaching manners.
http://family.go.com/raisingkids/child/dev/feature/dony39famanners/dony39famanners2.html
A textile dictionary allows the user to look at a definition/explanation of fabrics in multiple categories.
http://www.ntgi.net/ICCF&D/index2.htm
FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) is the student organization for young men and women in family and consumer sciences education in public and private schools. At this site learn about the organization and its national activities.
http://www.fcclainc.org
An exciting and fun activity for teaching basic safe food handling tips.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/~dms/cbook.html
This Web site will help you understand all the deductions that appear on your paycheck and that incomprehensible W-4 form. Calculate and print out the data you enter. Related links on this site include payroll and taxes, tax preparation, the IRS, and the Social Security Administration.
http://www.paycheckcity.com/W4/w4instruction.asp
Here are some great online economics lessons--all levels and content areas keyed to the Nebraska Social Studies/Economics Standards. If you know the concept you want to teach, start from the K-5 concepts list or the 6-12 concepts list. Materials from which to create more lessons are available from the Virtual Economics Companion.
http://www.sites4teachers.com/links/redirect.php?url=http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/lessons/lessons.cfm