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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Renaissance: Focus on Florence
Overview of Florence during the Renaissance discusses the key elements and individuals that made the city a center of Renaissance power and culture: the Medici family, the wool trade, humanism, Florentine art and architecture,...
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Annenberg Learner: Garbage: Hazardous Waste Solutions
This concise article explores possible solutions to the hazardous waste problem.
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Annenberg Learner: Garbage: Sewage
This concise article looks at the definition of sewage and the cost of treating waste water.
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Annenberg Learner: Garbage: Sewage Solutions
A natural and less expensive approach to sewage treatment is discussed in this article about a California city that uses an artificial wetlands waste treatment plant.
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Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Density and Pressure
Find out your or your students' understanding of density and pressure. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Rising and Sinking
Find out your or your students' understanding of fluid displacement. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Annenberg Learner: 4 Question Survey: Matter
Find out your or your students' understanding of matter. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Chemical Change
Find out your or your students' basic knowledge of concepts like matter, molecules and open and closed systems. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Reviewing the Previous Sessions
Find out your or your students' understanding of matter. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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Annenberg Learner: Five Question Survey: Basic Astronomy?
Find out your or your students' understanding of astronomy. To be used as a pre-assessment, your students can compare what they already know.
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Annenberg Learner: The Towers Problem
Build as many different looking towers as is possible, each exactly four cubes high using two colors of Unifix Cubes. Convince yourself and others that you have found all possible towers four cubes high and that you have no duplicates.
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Annenberg Learner: Ecology Lab
Build your own ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.
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Annenberg Learner: Literature: What Makes a Good Short Story?
First this page asks students to read a short story called "A Jury of Her Peers." Then, this page asks students to "Read about the elements of a good short story and to take part in activities related to 'A Jury of Her Peers.'"
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Annenberg Learner: Wind Chill
Why do windy winter days seem so bitterly cold? Calculate the wind chill factor and find out.
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Annenberg Learner: Evolution of Tungara Frog Mating Calls
Use molecular information and observe female response patterns to learn about the mating calls of Physalaemus frogs. Examine the evolution of female preference for particular call characteristics.
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Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom: Teaching Music
Two different schools are chosen as examples of varying approaches to best practices of teaching music. The video, interviews, and other resources are good for classroom teachers and for music specialist teachers. Classroom teachers can...
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story: Characters
The interactive story lesson engages students in the study of "characters" and terms associated with them. Using the story of Cinderella as an anchor story, students will identify the following: hero, villain, protagonist, antagonist,...
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Annenberg Learner: Teachers' Lab: A Private Universe
This section is dedicated to educators to become expert instructors on topics like: distance between Earth, the Sun, and the moon, the phases of the moon, and reason for the seasons. Site includes information about how to address...
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Annenberg Learner: Browse Lesson Plans
The following database allows teachers to search for lessons for all age groups covering a wide range of subjects. Simply click on the age group and the following content: arts, foreign language, literature and language arts,...
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: Woodrow Wilson
Discover what made Woodrow Wilson a powerful president in this biographical account.
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Rock Cycle
Learn about the differences and similarities between the three different types of rocks on this page.
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Annenberg Learner: Applied Genetic Modification
Worldwide, millions of people are infected with the hepatitis B virus (HBV) and the world is in need of a resourceful and inexpensive vaccine. In this case study you will learn how to generate a plant that produces a hepatits B protein...
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Pbs Learning Media: Making Civics Real: Electoral Politics
In this instructional activity from Annenberg Learner, young scholars divide into small groups to brainstorm and research specific community issues, prioritize the issues studied on the basis of what they have learned, present their...
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Reading Strategies: Identify Author's Viewpoint
This reading resource discusses the strategy of identifying an author's viewpoint. A list of guiding questions is provided to help students as they analyze the author's viewpoint.