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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Printing and Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Focus on the emergence of the printing press and bookmaking. Humanism and other new philosophies of the Renaissance mentioned as well. Also, check out other links to learn more.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Garbage: Solid Waste

For Students 9th - 10th
In this article, you can learn about solid wastes. It discusses the problems associated with disposal and possible solutions.
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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Mystery Operations

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.
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Annenberg Learner: The Middle Ages

For Students 9th - 10th
Description and links to descriptions of the various peoples during the Middle Ages. Covers everything from religion to feudal life.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Collapse: The Maya

For Students 9th - 10th
Captivating site containing information about the collapse of civilizations. It explores the needs and characteristics of a healthy civilization that must be maintained in order to avoid collapse.
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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Guess My Button

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
This website gives students an opportunity to sort and classify attributes of a group. The applet responds to each selection made and guides student to the next step.
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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Word Patterns Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Describing Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video program showing how to use a scatter plot to illustrate relationship between response and explanatory variables, to determine patterns in variables, and to calculate least squares. Real-life examples -- manatee deaths per number of...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Random Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video presentation on the probability of independent events, covering related topics: multiplication rule, random variable, and mean and standard deviation. [28:41]
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Online Course
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Every Rock Tells a Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the different types of rocks on our Earth as you watch a one-hour video, accompanied by learning goals, details on sedimentary rocks, fossils, and supercontinents, and more.
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Online Course
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Geologic Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this online quiz and test your knowledge of geological history, and the formation of our atmosphere, water, crust, oxygen, tectonic plates, Moon, and the rest of the Earth.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Workshop 1: Creating a Community of Writers

For Teachers 6th - 9th Standards
Workshop 1 explores the components of a community of writers and what teachers can do to create and foster such a community. After a brief introduction to the goals of all eight workshop sessions, middle school teacher and writing expert...
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Annenberg Learner: Grade 2 Spelling Bee

For Students 2nd Standards
Spelling Bee offers three levels of words for each grade level group (1-12). Click the appropriate grade level tab. In each level a story is both shown on the screen and read to the student. Students will type missing words to complete...
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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Energy Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Try and meet global energy demands by using alternative energy sources while keeping the carbon levels in the atmosphere down to acceptable levels. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed description of Jaques-Louis David's painting Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons. Includes audio of a modern art professor's perspective of the art. [3:43]
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Art Through Time: A Global View

For Students 9th - 10th
Art Through Time: A Global View connects pieces of artwork from all over the world during different eras by examining common themes between them. The website is arranged to browse by theme, a specific piece of artwork, or to compare...
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Alien Eyes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.
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Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the structure of the Earth to learn what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and more.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Analyzing a Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Examine how elements of teaching for understanding are incorporated in a lesson. Enter your examples of how the element is used in the lesson, and then compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Applied Genetic Modification

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore practical uses of genetic engineering techniques to generate a plant that produces a hepatitis B protein for potential vaccine use. Examine the use of restriction enzymes for cloning and plasmid mapping.
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Annenberg Learner: The Art of Creating a Poll

For Students 9th - 10th
You are the head of the Public Relations committee for your hometown Waste Removal Department. Create a poll for your department to find out how the public feels about waste incineration.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Assessing Student Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Assess two drafts of students' letters using criteria presented as a four-point-scale rubric.
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Annenberg Learner: Cause for Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
The Constitution creates separate institutions that must share power, there will always be disputes over the basic principles. Check out some of the hot issues (term limits, electoral college, judicial review) that are in dispute even to...