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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Fifties 1945 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
World War II ends with the legacy of its final moment: the atomic bomb. After reading comprehensive background material, interactive feature lets you decide if President Truman was correct in his decision to drop atomic bombs on...
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...
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Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth: Plates and Boundaries

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive website where students can learn about movement of earth's 15 major tectonoic plates and identify types of boundaries. Includes glossary and learning game.
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Annenberg Learner: The Carbon Cycle

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give students an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust. It allows them to experiment with how human input to the cycle might...
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Annenberg Learner: Economics U$a: Us Economic Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this timeline to discover how the economic climate has changed over time.
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Annenberg Learner: Us History Map: Arctic, Northwest Coast and California Tribes

For Students 4th - 8th
A brief description of some of the main Native American tribes that lived in the Arctic, along the Northwest Coast, and in California.
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Annenberg Learner: Discovering Psychology: Research Methods

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you will explore how psychologists draw solid conclusions from the complex and often ambiguous phenomena they study -- how you think, feel, and behave.
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Annenberg Learner: Weather: Forecasting: Gathering Weather Data

For Students 2nd - 8th
Identify tools and their functions that help meteorologists study the weather.
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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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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Annenberg Learner: Analyzing Complex Text

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
During this lesson, students will use close reading strategies to analyze aspects of the setting in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. [7:57] CCSS.ELA-Literacy.CCRA.R.10, RL.11-12.10a/b Text Complexity
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Annenberg Learner: Geometry: 3 D Shapes: Surface Area and Volume

For Students 6th - 8th Standards
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: Volcanoes: Forecasting Eruptions

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at some of the methods and problems with forecasting volcanic eruptions.
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Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography

For Teachers 9th - 10th
An eight-part professional development workshop for 7th-12th grade teachers.
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Annenberg Learner: Biography of Amer: Philip Armour and Packing House Conditions

For Students 9th - 10th
Philip Armour, an industry titan in the meat industry, made his money by exploiting the need of his workers for jobs. Read about the deplorable conditions the workers endured in the packinghouses and in the shanty towns in which they...
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Annenberg Learner: Rediscovering Biology: Unit 4: Microbial Diversity

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete learning module on microbial diversity that includes a downloadable textbook chapter, teacher guide, and lesson activities. The chapter can also be viewed online. In addition, there are animations, images, a video, and...
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Annenberg Learner: Rediscovering Biology: Unit 5: Emerging Infectious Diseases

For Students 9th - 10th
A complete learning module on emerging infectious diseases that includes a downloadable textbook chapter, teacher guide, and lesson activities. The chapter can also be viewed online. In addition, there are animations, images, a video,...
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Annenberg Learner: Amusement Park Physics: Roller Coaster

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about Newton's Laws of Physics, g-force, the causes of motion sickness, and more by reading about different rides at an amusement park.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Sunlight and the Seasons

For Students 9th - 10th
This student observation guide walks learners through setting up an investigation of the seasons and their causes. Students can report their actual data right there on the page.
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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Learner.org illustrates the inner and outer workings of Renaissance art and architecture in the Italian city of Florence. It also provides an example by noting some works by Michelangelo and Botticelli.
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Annenberg Learner: Valuing Diversity in Learners

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Study four types of learners (heritage language learners, those with learning disabilities, with different learning styles and in different levels)and the issues related to each. Read strategies of other teachers and describe strategies...
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Signs of Spring: Earthworms

For Students 9th - 10th
An informative presentation on earthworms that answers questions associated with ecology, conservation, life cycle, and characteristics.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Gray Whales

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive presentation that answers a number of questions about gray whales. In addition, there are challenge questions, lessons, and activities that can be used in the classroom. the migratory pattern of this whale is also tracked.