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Maryland Public Television: Plan Your Dream Prom
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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Thinkport: Write Now: Where Has All the Sav Gone?
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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Thinkport: Women in Modern World History
Using a famous quote from Maya Angelou as inspiration, students learn and practice writing informative essay related to hisotric events.
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Thinkport: Citizens' Rights and Responsibilities: Voting
Students analyze both quantitative and qualitative forms of information in order to answer compelling questions about voter participation trends.
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Thinkport: Assessing an Author's Claims
Learn how to evaluate resoruces and author's claims.
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Thinkport: Protecting the Rights of the People
Find relationships among primary and secondary sources that identify where information from different sources converges and where it differs.
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Thinkport: Comparing Perspectives of the Cuban Missile Crisis
In this module, students examine the different points of view of the political leaders involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Access to Clean Water: What Is the Problem?
Mixed media which give evidence of the problems with access to clean water.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Global Water Issues
Explore reports and news articles to build understanding of global water issues.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: The Engineering Design Process
Students brainstorm new ideas during part of the engineering process of designing a water purification system.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Regional Information on Water Issues
Resources to gather research on water issues in Asia and Africa.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality: Possible Solutions
Students act as engineers to design a basic solution to the water quality problems studied.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Water Quality Resources
Explore these resources to learn more about the natural and engineered processes that can help contribute to improved water quality.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Consider Constraints/ Explore Possibilities
Students design a water purification system given certain constraints.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Approach and Design Proposal
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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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Make a Prototype and Test Your Design
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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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Refine Your Design/create Your Final System
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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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Communicate Your Results
Resources for communicating results of a PBL unit where students designed a water purification system.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Phase 3 Build Your Presentation
Some ideas to help students think of preparing a creative presentation for thier water purification PBL.
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Thinkport: Water, Water, Everywhere: Final Presentation
Students plan to present their water purification system at the end of a project-based learning exercise.
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Thinkport: Picasso, the Early Years 1892 1906
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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Thinkport: Graphic Organizers
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
A quick formative review of extreme weather.