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Annenberg Learner: Executive Branch Recap: The Bureaucracies
The departments and agencies of the executive branch are responsible for regulating many of the things we use in our everyday routines. Follow a student through her day to find objects regulated by the government.
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Annenberg Learner: Executive Leadership Recap: Roles of the President
The President wears many hats such as Chief of State, Party Leader, Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief. Try your hand at assisting the President with his schedule, as the Chief of Staff.
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Annenberg Learner: Fun House Mirrors
Explore the effect of concave and convex mirrors. Combine concave and convex mirrors to design a fun house mirror that will create the distorted pictures of Melissa and Sam.
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Annenberg Learner: Interest Group Recap
There are special interest groups for many purposes, and you likely belong to one without even knowing it. Find out which groups might be of interest to you.
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Annenberg Learner: Isotopes, a Weighty Matter: Isotope Quiz
You will be presented with three different isotopes of the same element. See if you can calculate the atom's average relative mass.
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Annenberg Learner: Letters: Use Your Document Detective Skills
Read three letters, one at a time, about events of historical significance. Identify the region and era particular to each letter, and answer additional questions about the information it contains.
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Annenberg Learner: Making Connections in Your Teaching
Connect teaching goals with strategies that enhance learning. Select teaching goals, review the tips provided, then brainstorm and list strategies you would use to help students make connections. Compare your answers to other teachers'...
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Annenberg Learner: Medieval Hats
Hats were an important part of medieval garb. Look at pictures of five medieval hats and try to determine which of the people listed wore which of the hats.
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Annenberg Learner: Medieval m.d.
You are a doctor in the Middle Ages with three patients to cure. Read about their symptoms and decide what medieval treatment to prescribe.
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Annenberg Learner: Melting Rocks
Turning solid rock into liquid magma involves changing its temperature, pressure, and water content. Try your hand at melting rock to create magma.
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Annenberg Learner: Mini Mouse Lab
Use a simulation to operate an elevator and see its motion. Examine the graphs that describe the motion you produce.
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Annenberg Learner: Part C: Fibonacci Numbers
Look at an interesting application of ratios that demonstrates the amazing patterns that emerge when we examine mathematics. The Fibonacci numbers are found in art, music, and nature.
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Annenberg Learner: The Path of a Case
You just graduated from law school and want your first case to go all the way to the Supreme Court. Read some case summaries and pick a case you think will make it to the Supreme Court.
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Annenberg Learner: Plate Interactions Challenge
Identify real-world cases of boundary interactions and predict the most likely future geologic outcomes. In the lightning round, unscramble four geologic terms.
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Annenberg Learner: Powerful Teaching and Learning
Read the description of each segment, then identify up to three elements of powerful teaching and learning best represented in the segment. Once you've identified the elements, explain your answers.
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Annenberg Learner: Discovering Psychology: Research Methods
In this activity, you will explore how psychologists draw solid conclusions from the complex and often ambiguous phenomena they study -- how you think, feel, and behave.
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Annenberg Learner: Rock Cycle Assessment: Test Your Skills
Test your knowledge of rocks and the rock cycle. Take this 15-question test, review your correct and incorrect answers, and print out your assessment.
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Annenberg Learner: South Africa Timeline
This timeline provides insight into the long history of struggle of the black population of South Africa. Follow the centuries of European wars and colonial rule and the policies that led to apartheid.
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Annenberg Learner: Story Weaver
Reflect on a medieval tapestry and write a story about what you think is going on. Read stories that other site visitors have written about the tapestry.
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Annenberg Learner: This Just In
Different forms of media can present different views of the same story. See how your point of view might change as you read an article, watch a news clip and read an online article about the same event.
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Annenberg Learner: Timeline
This timeline gives a contextual view of major events from from Pre-Columbian America to 2005. Each period covers a unit in the America's History in the Making course.
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Annenberg Learner: Timeline: Global Politics Recap
Reveal key foreign policy decisions through U.S. history. Select "You Decide" to test your knowledge.
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Annenberg Learner: Timeline: History of Psychology
Learn about the historical foundations of contemporary psychology. Use the timeline to explore key events, publications, and perspectives that have shaped psychology from the late 19th century to the present.
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Annenberg Learner: Using Artifacts
View an engraving and two photographs from U.S. history. As you view these resources, think about what you can identify and interpret through the images, and what kinds of questions you might generate if you were using these images to...