Activities Created by Workshop Participants
Michael Krauss
Contact: krauss@lclark.edu

Institute for the Study of American Language and Culture,
(ISALC) Lewis & Clark College

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The following are Quia activities created by teachers who have used these Workshop materials. Check back as more Quia activities will be posted here.

• Created by participants at ORTESOL CALL Workshop on 5/12/01
• Created by participants at De Anza College Workshop on 5/18/01
• Created by participants in the Hillsboro Academy Program Workshop on 6/21/01

Submitted-by: Susan Lindsay

School: Portland State University

Email: lindsays@pdx.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131739.html

Students: 20+ year olds...intermediate reading

Activity: vocabulary list of student chosen words from the novel, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, by Fannie Farmer

Ideas: Yes I would like to have student created multiple choice quizzes.

School: French Prairie Middle School (Woodburn)

Email: kelly_rk@hotmail.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131735.html

Students: 6th-8th grade English language learners

Activity: The game is matching the infinitive form with the past tense form.I'd like to use this to help my kids review irregular verbs.

Ideas: There are tons of ways this could be used with my students...unfortunately I don't always have computer access. Next year I should have more computer access. With my beginning level English learners I could have my students create quizzes for others in their class. For my intermediate students I would like to have their story quizzes on Quia...less paper...less work...more interest on the part of my students.

Thanks.

Kelly Kulzer

School: Washington Elementary School

Email: zettybobo@yahoo.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/rr/10222.html

Students: Fifth Graders any language level

Activity: A review of reducing fractions to lowest terms

Ideas: I want to have the students create their own quizzes on their current project researching the fifty states.

School: Oregon City High School

Email: abigail1234@yahoo.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/pages/ellglobal.html

Students: High School Geography class - low intermediate speakers

Activity: This is the class page for my ELL Global Studies class. I use it to post homework assignments, reminders, etc. as well as a place for the games.

School: American English Institute, University of Oregon

Email: mischler@oregon.uoregon.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/rd/3969.html

Students: college level, lower-intermediate English skill

Activity: I created an ordered list based on a video drama that I show to my Oral Skills 2 class. This activity is meant to help them review the story. In the activity, the students put key events from each episode in the correct order. This develops reading, recall, and comprehension skills in English.

Ideas: No time. I will do this later as a follow-up to my Quia project. I plan to do more with this! Thanks, Michael!!

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School: Clark College

Email: jhutchin@clark.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131743.html

Students: low intermediate community college students (new to college)

School: PSU

Email: godfreyk@pacifier.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/pop/13161.html

Students: 1st year German class/adults

Activity: check how well you know which verbs take "haben" and which take "sein" in present perfect

School: PSU

Email: kraft@teleport.comjg/131741.html

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131741.html

Students: Japanese summer students, college level

Activity: Java games: Good-bye baseball

Japanese students visiting Portland for three weeks might want to listen to Mariners baseball on the radio in English! This game was designed for an American Culture class.

School: Clark College

Email: gjcnen@aol.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131742.html

Students: adults, mid-beginners

Activity: interview questions for testing self & others

School: PCC

Email: lbrunkow@teleport.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131765.html

Students: adult ESL intermediate reading and writing

Activity: just the nouns from an Oregonian article; use as practice for vocab development

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School: Beaverton High School

Email: jrfolgate@home.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131763.html

Students: Students grade 9-12 / advanced ESL class

Activity: Novel key concepts review

Includes vocabulary, setting & plot

Ideas: I think this would be a great way for students to create flash cards to study things that they are having trouble with in class. There are many ways to use this site.

School: ELI, OSU

Email: deborah.healey@orst.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/cb/6992.html

Students: intermediate-advanced learners; teachers

Activity: (Did more work on one I'd started before)

This is a challenge board related to computer skills - Windows basics and email basics.

Ideas: I like having students create activities - they spend more time and pay more attention to the work they do for other students and the work done by other students. You need to have a process for students to critique each other without being too harsh, unless they're good friends already.

School: Chemeketa Community College

Email: dins@chemeketa.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131768.html

Students: college academic listening and speaking students

Activity: This is a brief review using some key vocabulary from the first 2 chapters of the text, Quest Academic Listening and Speaking Book 2.

School: ELI OSU

Email: donna.shaw@orst.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131767.html

Students: adult ESL students; very low-level language learners with almost no English

Activity: I intend to have my students visit this site to practice their vocabulary terms.

Ideas: I'm not sure yet.

School: chemeketa community college

Email: prom@chemeketa.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/

Students: adult, adv. beginner

Activity: hangman - ailment/emergency vocab. - just practicing!

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School: Lewis and Clark College

Email: arendt@lclark.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131764.html

Students: College level Intermediate

Activity: Computer vocabulary used at the beginning of the course to introduce students to the course. A reinforcement of what is discussed in class. It could also be used as a pre-quiz activity.

Ideas: I think having the students create their own quizzes in groups would be fun. Each group could choose a chapter of a text and then have the remaining class members take the quiz and offer feedback regarding difficulty, grammar, answers, etc.

School: Lane Community College

Email: johnsonn@lanecc.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131771.html

Students: Advanced ESL Reading/Writing class at a community college

Activity: This class is reading the book, "Apollo 13." This will provide an opportunity for some additional practice with these words.

School: u of o

Email: marna@oregon.uoregon.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131761.html

Students: Reading/Writing Level 4 ESL IP students

Activity: Weekly vocabulary quizzes on 4 chapters of B is for Burglar

School: Clackamas Community College

Email: jkeller@multnomah.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131773.html

Students: Adult interview questions-citizenship

Activity: These are questions sometimes asked from the N400 citizenship application form. I am teaching a group now and ask these questions to prepare the class for the test.

School: OSU

Email: Tina.Withrow-Robinson@orst.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131772.html

Students: my 146x Idioms class

Activity: Games for students to play outside of class to review what we have done in class.

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School: ELI, OSU

Email: deborah.healey@orst.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/pp/4574.html

Students: Teachers in the ORTESOL workshop

Activity: This is a review/quiz for people who took the PowerPoint session at the ORTESOL workshop.

School: ELI OSU

Email: Deborah.Marino@orst.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/131769.html
http://www.quia.com/pages/spring130rw.html

Students: intermediate reading/writing students

Activity: 20 item word list w/ definitions from a textbook reading

URL: http://www.quia.com/pages/r3su01.html

Activity: Frida Kahlo-Weaving It Together

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/135485.html

Activity: Learn the vocabulary of ancient Egypt

Created by participants at De Anza College Workshop on 5/19/01

Submitted-by: claralam

School: De Anza College

Email:

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/133532.html

Students: ESL 5 (pre-English 1A) level, advaced reading and writing

Activity: This activity is for the first 5 chapters of the novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, which is used for supplementary reading.

Ideas: Definitely, students can come up with very creative ideas of using Quia. The only problem is they have to be in a computer lab to do this, not in a traditional classroom.

School: De Anza College

Email: kf07771@mercury.fhda.edu

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/133529.html

School: De Anza College

Email: drewoman@earthlink.net

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/133530.html

Students: mixed ages; level three community college listening/speaking class (ESL 151)

Activity: This activity is intended to review multiple word idioms from the first chapter of All Clear: Idioms in Context by Helen Kalkstein Fragiadakis. This will allow the Ss to review/practice the idioms interactively in a game-like context.

Ideas: I'd like to experiment more with the various activities and quiz options. I think it could lend itself to having the Ss write their own sentences using the idioms in context and then post them so they could practice with each others work.

School: De Anza

Email: katiekd@pacbell.net

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/133531.html

Students: Advanced ESL Community College

Activity: Vocabulary Words and the meanings used in NorthStar, Advanced, Reading and Writing Have students use it to study the vocabulary we focus on in Units 4-6

Ideas: Yes, if I end up using it, I'll have students create activities.

School: De Anza College

Email: sophie1662@aol.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/pages/eslexplorers.html

Students: My intermediate level ESL students!

Activity: I created several review activities (i.e., about the environment, the video series, CONNECT WITH ENGLISH, and a grammar review Challenge Board) that students could try out in connection to work we have been doing in class. Hopefully, this will lead to their creating their own activities in the very near future!

Created by participants in the Hillsboro Academy Program Workshop on 6/21/01

Submitted-by: Kurt Kristensen

School: Evergreen MS

Email: KristenK@hsd.k12.or.us

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/140798.html

Students: 7th graders reading Arturo's Flight - A short Story from Judith Ortiz Cofer's collection "An Island Like You."

Activity: Daily vocabulary builder for material we study

Ideas: I like the user friendliness of site and look forward to experimenting with students creating challenging games for each other; for example, their weekly test of vocabulary competency level.

School: Brookwood

Email: salal@hsd.k12.or.us

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/140804.html

Students: 6 year old first grade level

Activity: It is a matching game. I will used it to build vocabulary in my students.

School: Peter Boscow

Email: hahsc@hsd.k12.or.us

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/140797.html

Students: Elementary age newcomer ESL students

Activity: This is a vocabulary list associated with a unit on animals and their habitats. The unit is designed to help students learn vocabulary and concepts related to this subject.

School: J.B. Thomas Middle School

Email: patronjo@hsd.k12.or.us

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/140810.html

Students: 7th Grade Advanced ESL Health students

Activity: The activity looks at vocabulary associated with chapter three from the students Health text. The focus of the chapter is 'Your Mental and Emotional Health'.

The five subheadings or units include 1) What is mental health? 2) Building Positive self esteem 3) Understanding your emotions 4) Managing Stress and 5) Mental Disorders.

Ideas: This activity can be used as a vocabulary review. It could also be created by students to help them gather information. This will help the students familiarize themselves with the terms, thus making them personally involved in their learning.

School: Mooberry Elementary

Email: OLVERARAMIREZ@AOL.COM

URL: http://www.quia.com/jq/26551.html

Students: 9-10 yr. old/Intermediate level

Activity: Information about the oceans-Could used for unit on the oceans.

Ideas: This is the great opportunity to learn in different ways. They can play and learn at the same time.

School: Mooberry School

Email: mundo23x@teleport.com

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/26550.html

Students: 9-10 years old/Intermediate level

Activity: Information about the oceans-Could be used for a unit on the oceans

Ideas: It gives students an opportunity to learn important vocabulary doing activities that are fun and motivating.

School: Hillsboro School District

Email: munyonc@hsd.k12.or.us

URL: http://www.quia.com/jg/140806.html

Students: E.S.L. students, very limited English, who want to practice some irregular past tense verbs

Activity: Students match a present tense verb with its past tense. Game options are matching, concentration, and flash cards.

Ideas: I'm excited! Students love games. They'll enjoy creating games for each other.

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