Step 1. The teacher provides a description of the term.

Build on direct experiences, such as field trip or a guest speaker, that provides examples of the term:

Virtual Trips, More Virtual Trips, Find or Make Your Own Field Trip, Yahoo Virtual Field Trips, Skype, Google Earth 

Use video or computer images as the stimulus for the information:

You Tube, Teacher Tube, More Video Resources

Teacher created examples using both a linguistic and nonlinguistic piece:

ELA example Verb Voc Example.doc  , Science example Simple_Machine_Voc_Example.doc

Use current events to help make the terms applicable to something familiar to the students:

MSNBC, CNN, Yahoo, Google News, National Geographic - educator resources

Find pictures that exemplify the term:

Copyright Friendly Resources

Demos for math and science - check out the samples made for different math and science courses

Math demos for all grade levels

Math manipulatives for elementary grades

Use a photo editing software such as iPhoto (Macintosh users), Photo Story, or Picasa from Google (PC or Mac user) to demonstrate a term for the students in a slideshow - Photo Story and Picasa

are FREE downloads, iPhoto is part of the software for a Macintosh computer