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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Rock Cycle: How Rocks Change

For Students 5th - 9th
Find out how rocks and rock layers change with erosion and weathering.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages a Literary Survey

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A series of 16 Instructional Units on American Literature with texts, videos, instructor guides, and more. Topics include: Native Voices, Exploring Borderlands, Utopian Promise, Spirit of Nationalism, Masculine Heroes, Gothic...
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Lesson Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Reading Like a Historian

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this 8-day unit, students will engage in collecting text evidence and then writing about their findings. They will answer the following question with credible, well-explained evidence: Why did Andrew Jackson and Elias Boudinot...
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Article
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Annenberg Learner: Literature: Exploring Point of View

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This page explains point of view by discussing examples of situations where mutiple people witness an event, but have different perspectives on what occured. It offers a link at the bottom of the page to information about types of point...
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Design a Roller Coaster

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive lesson where students design and build their own virtual roller coaster. Choose the height of the hills. the shape of the hills. and loop to find out if you successfully used physics concepts to pass the safety and fun...
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Interactive
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Annenberg Classroom: Energy and the Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline discussing when the environmental acts and major events took place. Scroll through to learn details about the different acts that have been passed to preserve our energy and environment.
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Primary
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Annenberg Classroom: The Preamble

For Students 9th - 10th
The preamble is the introduction to the Constitution. It outlines the general goals of the framers: to create a just government and to ensure peace, adequate national defense, and a healthy, free nation. With its first three words, "We...
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: The Annenberg Guide to the United States Constitution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Annenberg guide to the United States Constitution: what It says, what It means. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Eleventh Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the 11th Amendment limiting the type of lawsuits brought against states. The page includes explanation and links to related resources.
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Twelfth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source text of the 12th Amendment accompanied by an explanation of the history and meaning. Links to resources for further study of this Constitutional Amendment.
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Website
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Annenberg Classroom: Thirteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Annenberg Classroom resource provides text of the 13th Amendment with an explanation of what it means. Links to related resources.
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Fourteenth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and brief description of the history and meaning of the 14th Amendment. Links to related resources listed.
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Twenty Third Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Text of the 23rd Amendment and accompanying explanation in Annenberg Classroom Civics Education site.
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Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Twenty Fourth Amendment

For Students 9th - 10th
Text and explanation of the 24th Amendment banning poll tax.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Use Context Clues to Decipher Words

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This reading resource discusses the strategy of using context clues to decipher new words. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they use context clues to understand new words.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Modernist Portraits: Marianne Moore

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Marianne Moore is the focus of this brief biography, remembered for her twentieth century poetry which embraced nature in a scientific sense as well as humanity. See "Marianne Moore Activities" for related materials.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Migrant Struggle: Tomas Rivera

For Students 9th - 10th
Capitalizing on his life as a migrant farmer, Tomas Rivera's literary contributions focus on humanity, as examined in this brief biography. See "Tomas Rivera Activities" for related resources.
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Colonial Settlement: Interactive Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive timeline see how other European nations, along with the British, colonized America and how events in Europe impacted colonization.
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: The Events of 1831: Interactive Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive timeline helps you examine how some of the events of 1831 were related. Significant events include slavery, abolition, evangelical revivalism, and new inventions.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Main Ideas and Supporting Details

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learn how to identify the main ideas and supporting details in an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Make Inferences and Draw Conclusions

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to go beyond the literal meaning of a text by using a list of guiding questions to make inferences and draw conclusions.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Paraphrase / Retell

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
Learn how to paraphrase a text by using a list of guiding questions.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Recognize Cause and Effect Relationships

For Students 4th - 6th Standards
Learn how to identify the cause and effect relationships within a text by using a list of guiding questions.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Summarize Information

For Students 8th Standards
Learn what a summary is and how to write an objective summary of an informational text by using a list of guiding questions.