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Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Reviewing the Previous Sessions

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Find out your or your students' understanding of matter. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Five Question Survey: Basic Astronomy?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Find out your or your students' understanding of astronomy. To be used as a pre-assessment, your students can compare what they already know.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Towers Problem

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Build as many different looking towers as is possible, each exactly four cubes high using two colors of Unifix Cubes. Convince yourself and others that you have found all possible towers four cubes high and that you have no duplicates.
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Professional Doc
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom: Teaching Music

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Two different schools are chosen as examples of varying approaches to best practices of teaching music. The video, interviews, and other resources are good for classroom teachers and for music specialist teachers. Classroom teachers can...
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Ecology Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
Build your own ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Amusement Park Physics: The Principles of Free Fall

For Students 9th - 10th
An article describing free fall principles in roller coaster rides. In addition to the explanation of free fall, an experiment is described that allows you to test free fall with a cup of water. Part of a larger presentation on roller...
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Graphic
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Watching the Seasons Change: Fall

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with fall by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Home Decorating

For Students 9th - 10th
This exhibit is designed to show students that geometry really does apply to the real world. By taking viewers through a home decoration project, students learn how to calculate area of a rectangle and circle.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Watching the Seasons Change: Spring

For Students 3rd - 5th
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with spring by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
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Article
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Meet the Whale Expert: Anne Smrcina

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet the Whale Expert, Anne Smrcina! Learn about her exciting career working with humpback whales.
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Interactive
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Analyzing Theme

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Article explains how to find the theme in a piece of literature by asking yourself a series of questions as you read. RL.9-10.1 Analyzing Theme. CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.2
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?

For Students 9th - 10th
First this page asks students to read a short story called "A Jury of Her Peers." Then, this page asks students to "Read about the elements of a good short story and to take part in activities related to 'A Jury of Her Peers.'"
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Wind Chill

For Students 9th - 10th
Why do windy winter days seem so bitterly cold? Calculate the wind chill factor and find out.
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Handout
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Social Realism: American Passages: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Trace the historical events and literary publications from the 1870s to 1920 with this timeline that accompanies the video Social Realism.
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Activity
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Evolution of Tungara Frog Mating Calls

For Students 9th - 10th
Use molecular information and observe female response patterns to learn about the mating calls of Physalaemus frogs. Examine the evolution of female preference for particular call characteristics.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: Literature: Creating Character

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
This article provides good insight into the creation of a character.