It has been a busy couple of weeks. I presented at Orange County CATESOL, Napa Adult School and now off to CCAE in Long Beach. However, I did develop a great lesson to use with Low beginning ESL students using QR codes to meet the EL CIVICS Lesson on the DMV. I will be posting a link to this lesson as soon as I develop it futher, but I feel like it was very successful. First I flashed a QR code on the screen and asked students if they had ever seen it. They said no. Then I asked them what it looked like. They said it looked like a UPC code. I said great and introduced them to QR codes. Since we have been using our phones for research, Quizlet Live and Kahoot, when I told them to download the app for a QR code reader, they had no problem doing it. There were many to choose from and some were better than others. But after about 10 mins, they had all downloaded one that worked well enough for the activity. Once the QR codes were downloaded, I had a practice sheet where students practiced scanning codes. I had one with my contact information, one with my picture and one of a wordless youtube movie. The movie was a Subaru commercial with the Barkely dogs. Since our focus was on DMV, I had students watch the movie and find out what parts of the car they could see. Next I divided the students into groups. I carefully placed a higher level student in each group so that they could help lower level students. I gave each student a job. There was a scanner, photographer, secretary and organizer in every group.
The next activity was like a stations activity. I had four different tasks: 1) Go to a group members car. Take pictures of the outside of the car illustrating any ten different parts. 2) Got to a group members car. Take pictures of the inside of the car illustrating any ten different parts. 3) Go out to the parking lot and find as many vehicle types as possible and take pictures of them. 4) Scan a QR code that consists of ten different pictures of traffic signs and write down what the signs mean 5) Scan 10 QR codes of the process in the DMV. Order the process in a sequence as studied. The students got right to work and basically needed almost no help. They were having so much fun doing the activities, that we forgot to take a break. QR codes for beginning ESL students? Heck yes!!!!! I will upload the links to the activities along with teacher notes as soon as all the conferencing is over.
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Susan Gaer
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