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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns

For Students 3rd - 7th Standards
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: Word Patterns Activities

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
This website helps students work with word patterns by having them create limericks and sentences. Students receive feedback and guidance as they work their way through the activities.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Describing Relationships

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video program showing how to use a scatter plot to illustrate relationship between response and explanatory variables, to determine patterns in variables, and to calculate least squares. Real-life examples -- manatee deaths per number of...
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Random Variables

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Video presentation on the probability of independent events, covering related topics: multiplication rule, random variable, and mean and standard deviation. [28:41]
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Online Course
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Every Rock Tells a Story

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the different types of rocks on our Earth as you watch a one-hour video, accompanied by learning goals, details on sedimentary rocks, fossils, and supercontinents, and more.
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Online Course
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: The Geologic Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Take this online quiz and test your knowledge of geological history, and the formation of our atmosphere, water, crust, oxygen, tectonic plates, Moon, and the rest of the Earth.
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Lesson Plan
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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Energy Lab

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Try and meet global energy demands by using alternative energy sources while keeping the carbon levels in the atmosphere down to acceptable levels. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner

For Students 9th - 10th
A list of video based learning modules available on several curricular topics including literature and reading, math, science, history, economics, and more.
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Alien Eyes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Delve into the structure of the Earth to learn what causes earthquakes, volcanoes, and more.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Analyzing a Lesson

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Examine how elements of teaching for understanding are incorporated in a lesson. Enter your examples of how the element is used in the lesson, and then compare your answers to other teachers' answers.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Applied Genetic Modification

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore practical uses of genetic engineering techniques to generate a plant that produces a hepatitis B protein for potential vaccine use. Examine the use of restriction enzymes for cloning and plasmid mapping.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: The Art of Creating a Poll

For Students 9th - 10th
You are the head of the Public Relations committee for your hometown Waste Removal Department. Create a poll for your department to find out how the public feels about waste incineration.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Assessing Student Letters

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Assess two drafts of students' letters using criteria presented as a four-point-scale rubric.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Cause for Debate

For Students 9th - 10th
The Constitution creates separate institutions that must share power, there will always be disputes over the basic principles. Check out some of the hot issues (term limits, electoral college, judicial review) that are in dispute even to...
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Dagestan Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
A timeline using historical maps shows the confluence of Islam and Russian rule in the area known as Dagestan. Follow the development of Islamic political entities in the area of present-day Dagestan.
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Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Earth's Plates

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine clues about the behavior, history and appearance of various volcanoes. Then try to locate the volcanoes on the map.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Elections and Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
You've just found out that your neighborhood has been declared a gun-free zone. Choose which side of the issue you are on, and decide which civic actions you will take to support your position.
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Professional Doc
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Annenberg Learner: Elements of Authentic Instruction

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Analyze three classroom segments and identify teaching strategies that illustrate authentic instruction. Give examples to support your answer and compare your answers to those of other teachers.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: European Union Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Since the end of World War II, many European countries have been working to foster increasing unity. This interactive timeline traces the development and future of the European Union.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Executive Branch Recap: The Bureaucracies

For Students 9th - 10th
The departments and agencies of the executive branch are responsible for regulating many of the things we use in our everyday routines. Follow a student through her day to find objects regulated by the government.
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Website
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Annenberg Learner: Executive Leadership Recap: Roles of the President

For Students 9th - 10th
The President wears many hats such as Chief of State, Party Leader, Chief Executive and Commander-in-Chief. Try your hand at assisting the President with his schedule, as the Chief of Staff.
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Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Fun House Mirrors

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the effect of concave and convex mirrors. Combine concave and convex mirrors to design a fun house mirror that will create the distorted pictures of Melissa and Sam.
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Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: Interest Group Recap

For Students 9th - 10th
There are special interest groups for many purposes, and you likely belong to one without even knowing it. Find out which groups might be of interest to you.