Australian Aboriginal art is one of the oldest continuing art traditions in the world. Much of the most important knowledge of aboriginal society was conveyed through different kinds of storytelling—including narratives that were spoken, performed as dances or songs, and those that were painted. In this lesson students will learn about the Aboriginal storytelling tradition through the spoken word and through visual culture. They will have the opportunity to hear stories of the Dreamtime told by the Aboriginal people, as well as to investigate Aboriginal storytelling in contemporary dot paintings.

The Portuguese language lessons of ClicaBrasil highlight aspects of Brazilian culture. They are designed for intermediate to advanced students, but are accessible to everyone. Each lesson includes videos of Brazilians from all walks of life speaking naturally about their lives and their country. All lessons integrate reading, writing, listening and comprehension, grammar, vocabulary, oral communication and cultural activities with the videos. This is also available as a free PDF textbook and as print on demand.

A compilation of video scenarios of people interacting with each other in Portuguese. Conversations include dialogs, questions, turn taking exchanges, clarifications, false starts, hugs, laughter, asides. The scenarios are enhanced by transcriptions, translations, content analysis, and notes and discussion blogs.

Oral History Interviews that bring students together with veterans help to foster empathy and make history come alive. This lessons offers a step-by-step guide to doing an oral history project with Vietnam War Veterans.

Students create movements to represent long and short rhythmic patterns and compose patterns using non-traditional notation.

Français interactif is a unique, award-winning 1st-year French curriculum used by learners all over the world. Students explore French language and culture by following the lives of real students who have participated in the UT Summer Program in Lyon, France. The online curriculum includes over 320 videos, vocabulary and phonetics audio, online grammar reference with self-correcting exercises and audio dialogues, verb conjugation and practice tools, internet activities, and a textbook of classroom exercises. Franais interactif was awarded the 2009 CALICO Esperanto Access to Language Education Award and the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Best of Humanities on the Web award (2005)

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Dr. Karen Drosinos teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters f, h, and q.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Patty Larson teach about identifying and producing words that rhyme and the letters Ii, Nn, and Uu.

This article discusses explicitly teaching and assessing listening comprehension skills in the elementary grades and provides templates for classroom use.

Students brainstorm strategies to guide their listening as they describe and label music of different genres.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Haley Cooprider teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters a, s, l, and p.

This video is part of the Learn and Grow with WHRO TV series. Watch Haley Cooprider teach about identifying rhyming words and the letters c, m, and o.

This activity is an interpretive listening task with an authentic resource (medical product commercial) in Spanish to be used in level 2 (possibly 1 or 3 depending on the unit you are teaching and your students' abilities).

This free, online article, developed for elementary teachers, describes a Kindergarten polar science, standards aligned, unit centered on The Polar Express developing literacy, math, and science skills.

English Learners with different proficiency levels will be able to practice fruits and vegetables vocabulary (beginner ELs) or Virginia Studies in a fun and engaging way. 

This resource is a short video with captions that utilizes basic vocabulary in greeting and introducing others in Spanish.