Leadership & Life Skills

Instructor - Jason Kreutner

Overview
Leadership & Life Skills is designed to help the student navigate a world filled with uncertainty by developing skills for finding connections/patterns among seemingly unrelated topics and serving as the interdisciplinary linking point for all of a student's courses. L&L Skills also focuses on practical skills like researching, writing, presenting, practicing (standardized tests), and polishing (grammar and spelling).

On-line Course Activities

This course will have a strong on-line component, and this will prove a valuable experience for you for future learning. The below L&L Skills website offers on-line forums, surveys, quizzes, mini-units, and class resources all in a password-protected environment.

On-line course page for Leadership & Life Skills

Materials

Standard USL paper-grading rubric
Grammatical Catechism (major concepts in grammar)

In-Class Activities & Homework

A daily recap for the course and homework assignments are available by selecting the week from the daily journal.

Online Courses

MIT Open Courseware (free on-line courses from MIT)

MIT Open Courseware Sample Physics Lecture (Walter H. G. Lewin, an MIT physics professor, explains understanding a roller coaster)

Open Yale (free on-line courses from Yale University)

World Lecture Hall (free on-line courses indexed by the University of Texas)

Other Resources

Free Rice (expand your vocabulary and provide rice to those in need)

Grammar Guide (mini-lessons and self-assessments)

Phun - 2D Physics Sandbox (must download from here)

I Know That (puzzles and thinking games for all disciplines)

Google Scholar (for searches of more academic-minded resources)

Ilike2learn.com (test your map skills)

The Smile Train (watch animations to learn cleft-palate surgery)

Folkstreams.net (web-based documentary films about American folk culture)

Media Literacy (a site maintained by the Summit School)

On-line Grammar Resources (at Park University)

Get Rich Slowly (a site devoted to long-term strategies)

Explore Career Options (student site of the Bureau of Labor Statistics)

Virtual Frog Dissection (run by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

Re-Mission (a downloadable simulation about cancer and how to fight it)