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Annenberg Learner: Converting Metric Mass Units
Practice converting mass from one metric unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Converting Metric Volume
Practice converting volume from one metric unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Which Famous Cathedral Collapsed?
After looking at four photos of cathedrals, try to choose which one fell and see if you can determine, from the pictures, why it might have collapsed.
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Annenberg Learner: Colliding Cars
Try to predict what will happen in three different bumper car collisions. For each collision, you'll be shown two possible outcomes.
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Annenberg Learner: Sampling the Electorate
As the pollster for candidate Higgins, you need to know how she is faring with different groups. Read her political profile, view the demographic profile of the city, decide on the groups to poll, review the results and learn about...
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Annenberg Learner: Cast Your Vote!
Cast your vote and answer some questions on the accuracy, usefulness, and impact of polls. Then read about what role polls play in an election.
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Annenberg Learner: Graphing Lab: Moose Synthesizer Co.
In this interactive economics lab, students help Albert Moose determine how to price his product, music synthesizers, based on costs and revenue. Students create supply curves to help in the decision process.
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Annenberg Learner: Quilts
Copy a quilt block made of 16 squares. Each block will have one of the four symmetry types: H, M, B, or S and you choose which you think it is.
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Annenberg Learner: Shadows
Can you judge an object by its shadow? Use your mental rotation skills to determine if a shadow can be produced by a particular shape.
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Annenberg Learner: Syntax Store
The colors listed in the boxes represent different parts of speech: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, etc. Figure out which colors represent which part of speech and then use the colors to create proper sentences.
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Annenberg Learner: Colored Shadows
Manipulate dual shadows and learn why different types of shadows are cast.
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Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: Why Integrate the Arts?
A video workshop for middle school teachers that demonstrates the effect integrating the arts can have on student engagement by addressing different learning styles, promoting creativity, and giving students an alternate means to...
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Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: What Roles Do Students Take On?
In this video workshop, middle school teachers learn the roles of students in the creative process. These roles include researcher, writer, designer, director, performer, and critic. Teachers also learn methods of responding to artwork...
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Annenberg Learner: Connecting With the Arts: What Are Connecting Concepts?
A video workshop designed for middle school teachers. This program focuses on planning for arts integration by identifying common themes and concepts across disciplines and creating activities that bridge these disciplines. Includes...
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Annenberg Learner: Tungurahua Timeline
The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador has gone through a series of active and dormant periods. Follow the volcano's activity from 1773 to 2000, including a scene of an explosive eruption in 1999.
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Annenberg Learner: Israel Development Timeline
This timeline shows the development of Israel throughout the 20th century to the present. Follow Israel from the British control of the region in 1917, to its founding in 1948, to events immediately following September 11.
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Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Skates 280
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on an experience at a skating party. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
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Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: The Watch Glass
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's poem comparing school to a watch glass. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
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Annenberg Learner: Respond to Student Writing: Cell Phones
Use an interactive rubric to evaluate areas of strengths and weaknesses in a student's essay on cell phone use in schools. Then compare your responses to another teacher's.
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Annenberg Learner: Connecting Themes and Disciplines
Connect themes and content to teaching strategies and activities. Practice developing lesson ideas by listing new concepts you would teach and activities you would use to teach them.
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Annenberg Learner: Skimming, Scanning, and Interpreting
Text accompanied by questions leads students through process of skimming (glancing through text for main idea), scanning (searching text for specific information) and interpretation (grasping and reacting to the deeper message).
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Annenberg Learner: A New Identity
Students have written one-paragraph self-descriptions to send to other citizens of the new state they are creating. Read one of the paragraphs and work backwards through a series of prompts to determine the paragraph's audience, purpose,...
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Annenberg Learner: The Village/state
Student groups have created ads for the new village/state they are creating to entice others to join them. Read one of the ads and work backwards through a series of prompts to determine the ad's audience, purpose, genre and theme.
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Annenberg Learner: Spiraling Content Across Grade Bands
Read a lesson description from each grade band (elementary, middle, high school) and adapt the content from that grade band to the other two. Choose the same language and/or culture as the sample descriptions or one your are more...