On The Other Hand

Designed to teach sign language to teachers and parents of deaf children, this innovative series can also teach signing to classroom students.

Grades 3-12, Professional Development

Designed to teach sign language to teachers and parents of deaf children, this innovative series can also teach signing to classroom students. Through animation, real-life segments, and direct instruction by the series’ hosts, students can learn the fundamentals of this language in order to communicate with friends and classmates who use signing as their primary means of communication. 

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On The Other Hand: Lesson 101 101
On The Other Hand: Lesson 101
Episode 101

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

There are different sign languages, some used by the deaf and others that are used by hearing people. One theme of this program is animals. We learn that the signs for animals resemble the animals...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 102 102
On The Other Hand: Lesson 102
Episode 102

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This show focuses on finger spelling and sign vocabulary for colors and clothes. They also cover the manual alphabet and finger spelling for words with no signs.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 103 103
On The Other Hand: Lesson 103
Episode 103

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

They join the Foster family to learn sign vocabulary. This time the vocabulary is about family relationships. Also discussed are the general guidelines of how female and male signs are formed as well...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 104 104
On The Other Hand: Lesson 104
Episode 104

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

One section of this lesson shows how to form signs in occupations and discusses how the "person marker" is used in sign language. They also cover the 4 aspects that make up every sign.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 105 105
On The Other Hand: Lesson 105
Episode 105

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This lesson explains eye gaze and how important it is in conversation. Food signs and the inverted v are also covered.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 107 107
On The Other Hand: Lesson 107
Episode 107

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

The entire program is about numbers and plurals, specifically cardinal numbers and how numbers are expressed in addresses, fractions, dates and other situations. Also they look at how numbers are used...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 108 108
On The Other Hand: Lesson 108
Episode 108

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

Telling time is related to this program. They concentrate on verbs, tenses and adverbs. The time line is covered. The time line is important because the location of the hands when signing is an...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 109 109
On The Other Hand: Lesson 109
Episode 109

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

More about time is discussed. You learn the signs for days of the week, holidays and other time signs. Two parts of the program will also talk about lengths of time in your time signs.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 110 110
On The Other Hand: Lesson 110
Episode 110

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This program covers sign vocabulary for foods. Definitive adjectives and classifiers are covered.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 111 111
On The Other Hand: Lesson 111
Episode 111

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

They look at adjectives throughout this lesson including iconic adjectives that show size. They review the 4 different ways that adjectives are used in sign language.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 112 112
On The Other Hand: Lesson 112
Episode 112

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This program continues the discussion on the use of adjective in American Sign Language: how to compare things and how to incorporate adjectives. Vocabulary related to health and parts of the body are...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 113 113
On The Other Hand: Lesson 113
Episode 113

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This lesson looks at the past and how signs change to meet the need of the users. In the past 75 years the signs have moved inward and upward. Another change is how two separate signs were paired...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 114 114
On The Other Hand: Lesson 114
Episode 114

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

Styles of signing are part of this lesson. They cover more adjectives related to feelings and explain junction markers. Noun/verb pairs are described.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 115 115
On The Other Hand: Lesson 115
Episode 115

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

Much of the information in a signing conversation is in the expressions and body stance. They compare sentences with and without facial expressions. They also demonstrate specific facial expressions...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 116 116
On The Other Hand: Lesson 116
Episode 116

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

This lesson covers vocabulary for rooms and furniture around the home. Also described is space used to set up comparisons in sentences as well as the 3 kinds of sentences in the deaf language.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 117 117
On The Other Hand: Lesson 117
Episode 117

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

They cover how to more effectively rephrase your PSE sentences so that your meaning will be clear to deaf people, specifically the classifier 1. They compare passive voice to active voice. More signs...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 118 118
On The Other Hand: Lesson 118
Episode 118

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

Vocabulary covered is signs used at schools. They talk about ordinal numbers and how the are used as adjectives and adverbs. They look at non-manual features that serve as adverbs to change the...
On The Other Hand: Lesson 119 119
On The Other Hand: Lesson 119
Episode 119

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

The discuss why English articles are not part of ASL. They talk about English idioms and how to change them into sign language. How conjunctions are handled are also covered.
On The Other Hand: Lesson 120 120
On The Other Hand: Lesson 120
Episode 120

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Grades: 9 10 11 12 Professional Development

Prefixes and suffixes are explained. They touch on different kinds of classifiers, signs for recreational activities and talk about deaf cultures.

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