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Interactive
Thinkport Education

Maryland Public Television: Plan Your Dream Prom

For Students 9th - 10th
In this interactive, you decide what to wear, how to ride and more. More importantly, find out if you have enough loot to cover your choices.
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Unit Plan
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Thinkport: Write Now: Where Has All the Sav Gone?

For Students 9th - 10th
Students are presented with videos, text and data in order to write an informational piece about submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Women in Modern World History

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Using a famous quote from Maya Angelou as inspiration, students learn and practice writing informative essay related to hisotric events.
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Unit Plan
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities: Voting

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Students analyze both quantitative and qualitative forms of information in order to answer compelling questions about voter participation trends.
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Unit Plan
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Thinkport: Assessing an Author's Claims

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn how to evaluate resoruces and author's claims.
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Unit Plan
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Thinkport: Protecting the Rights of the People

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Find relationships among primary and secondary sources that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.
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Unit Plan
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Thinkport: Comparing Perspectives of the Cuban Missile Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
In this module, students examine the different points of view of the political leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Access to Clean Water: What Is the Problem?

For Students 9th - 10th
Mixed media which give evidence of the problems with access to clean water.
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Global Water Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore reports and news articles to build understanding of global water issues.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: The Engineering Design Process

For Students 9th - 10th
Students brainstorm new ideas during part of the engineering process of designing a water purification system.
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Regional Information on Water Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources to gather research on water issues in Asia and Africa.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality: Possible Solutions

For Students 9th - 10th
Students act as engineers to design a basic solution to the water quality problems studied.
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Handout
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore these resources to learn more about the natural and engineered processes that can help contribute to improved water quality.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Consider Constraints/ Explore Possibilities

For Students 9th - 10th
Students design a water purification system given certain constraints.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Approach and Design Proposal

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they select an approach and develop a design proposal.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Make a Prototype and Test Your Design

For Students 9th - 10th
Students create a water purification system, and test it out to see how well it works to purify a water sample.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Refine Your Design/create Your Final System

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of a larger project where students design a water purification system, this is the step where they refine their design and create their final system.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Communicate Your Results

For Students 9th - 10th
Resources for communicating results of a PBL unit where students designed a water purification system.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Phase 3 Build Your Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Some ideas to help students think of preparing a creative presentation for thier water purification PBL.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation

For Students 9th - 10th
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
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Activity
Thinkport Education

Thinkport: Picasso, the Early Years 1892 1906

For Students 3rd - 8th
With the National Gallery of Art and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Maryland Public TV developed programming and this website to explore the early years of Picasso's artistic development from his talent at 11 until early adulthood....
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Graphic
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Thinkport: Graphic Organizers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of pre-formatted graphic organizers that you can integrate into activities and lesson plans or use by themselves.
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Thinkport: Made Clear: Quick Review: Extreme Weather

For Students 9th - 10th
A quick formative review of extreme weather.