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Annenberg Learner: United States History Map: Colonists
Use these interactive maps to see and read about the colonization of the New World by several European nations. When you are finished looking at the maps, test your skills with the European Colonies Challenge.
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Annenberg Learner: Geometry: 3 D Shapes: Surface Area and Volume
Learn how to calculate the surface area and volume of rectangular prisms and cylinders. Four interactive animations, preceded by simple instructions, guide you through the process of calculating area and volume.
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Annenberg Learner: Primary Sources: The Census: Who We Think We Are
An hour-long professional development workshop on teaching the function and significance of the census through the use of primary source documents. Features experienced teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also provided.
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Annenberg Learner: Primary Sources: Korea and the Cold War: A Case Study
An hour-long professional development workshop on teaching the Korean War and containment with primary sources. Features experienced teachers. Materials and a complete lesson plan are also available.
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: When Continents Collide
Material to begin an exploration of plate tectonics and mountain formation. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on metamorphic rocks and mountain building, and ideas for teaching this...
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Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature
This workshop, which is divided into eight segments, teaches how to use primary source artifacts from a variety of genres to support the teaching and learning of specific pieces of literature. The genres include visual arts, political...
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Annenberg Learner: Literary Visions
Twenty-six half hour videos on literary analysis for high school students that feature authors, scholars, actors and noted critics. Topics include The Art of the Essay, Setting and Character in Short Fiction, Responding to Literature and...
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Annenberg Learner: Conversations in Literature
A research based workshop by Judith Langer on bringing the joy of reading literature to your class. An excellent professional development resource, with eight videos on demand. Topics include Responding as Readers, Objectifying the Text,...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Global America
Comprehensive teaching unit on globalization's influences on the political and social structure of America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Includes a look at how immigration has affected a changing America. Contains video and...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Egalitarian America
Comprehensive teaching unit on egalitarian America: Americans that demanded political, social, and economic equality in all walks of life. Learn how the civil rights movement and an expanding mass media helped to reshape a changing...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Postwar Tension and Triumph
Comprehensive teaching unit on tensions of the Cold War era: conflicts between domestic prosperity and unfulfilled expectations, ideals of conformity and individualism. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making:by the People, for the People
A great lesson plan that explores the attempts to revive the American economy after the Great Depression through the New Deal programs of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Included are a video, text and questions, and primary source materials. A...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Growing Global Power
A comprehensive teaching unit on the emergence of the United States as a global power after World War I. Learn about America's drive for expansion, first by the military, then by businesses. Contains video and text materials, web...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The Progressives
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the Progressive period in America and the reform movements that accompanied it. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student oriented activities, and a timeline of key events from...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Industrializing America
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the "second industrial revolution" and the mass production of consumer goods. This, in turn, caused an increase in the labor force and immigration. Learn how these changes brought about the start...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Taming the American West
Comprehensive teaching unit that explores the settling of the American West in the late 1800s and the challenges these settlers faced. Contains video and text materials, web interactives, student oriented activities, and a timeline of...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Mapping Initial Encounters
Columbus' arrival laid the basis for encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans. This unit examines how these contacts altered the way of life of peoples around the globe.
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: The New Nation
After the War of Independence, Americans were unable to agree on the form of their federal government. This unit explores how those conflicts played out as the new Republic defined its identity in relation to other nations.
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Contested Territories
This site highlights the westward expansion of settlers in North America and the effects this expansion had on Native Americans between the Revolutionary and Civil Wars.
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Antebellum Reform
Nineteenth century United States saw the creation of reform movements: temperance, abolition, school and prison reform, as well as others. This unit traces the emergence of reform movements instigated by the Second Great Awakening and...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Civil War, a Nation Divided
A wonderful resource using primary and secondary source materials to explore many facets of the Civil War from the war itself to its impact on the home front. Includes video and text downloads.
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Reconstruction
This wonderful unit from Annenberg Media examines Reconstruction through three themes: reintegrating the former Confederate states in to the Union; the freedom of blacks and what that entailed socially and economically; and the economic...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Pre Columbian America
Although the title of this unit is Pre-Columbian America, the primary focus is on historical thinking. The second part of the unit explores the variety and complexity of cultures in Pre-Columbian America. Included are State Standards,...
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Annenberg Learner: Volcanoes: Can We Predict Volcanic Eruption
Wonderful presentation on volcanoes! Why do volcanoes erupt? How do they erupt? What happens to the land? Can volcano eruptions be predicted? Find the answers by clicking on this resource!