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Annenberg Learner: Democracy in America: Understanding Media: The Inside Story

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit highlights the integral role that the media plays in American politics to communicate between the leaders and the public. Offers video, readings, web resources, and activities.
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Annenberg Learner: Artifacts and Fiction: Workshop in American Literature

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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: American Passages: Poetry of Liberation

For Students 9th - 10th
This unit examines poetry of the postmodernism period, focusing on the Beat Movement, Black Arts Movement, feminism, and other related movements and periods in recent literary history. An extensive list of authors, time line, video, and...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Egalitarian America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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: Teaching Geography: South Africa and Kenya

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media-rich site featuring sub Saharan Africa. Discover effects of apartheid on the region's land and understand the impact society, politics, and geography has on the area's resources. With AIDS, malaria, and other maladies running...
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Annenberg Learner: Teaching Geography: North America

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Media-rich site that explores North America. The first part of this workshop focuses on the general human behavior in urban settings looking for and interpreting those patterns. The second portion draws attention to urban issues such as...
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Annenberg Learner: Workshops: Teaching Reading 3 5

For Students 3rd - 5th
This instructional workshop provides eight sessions on teaching reading in intermediate classrooms: "Creating Contexts for Learning," "Fluency and Word Study," "Building Comprehension," "Writing," "New Literacies of the Internet,"...
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Annenberg Learner: Teacher Resources

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Hundreds of acclaimed PBS programs, as well as video on demand can be viewed for free thanks to the Annenberg Foundation and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The videos can be used for individual or group professional development...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Museum Curator

For Students 9th - 10th
As part of the larger unit, America's History in the Making, from Annenberg Learner, this interactive allows students to be curators of their own mini-museum by choosing artifacts that fit a topic of their choice under the general theme...
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Gothic Undercurrents [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This document is a guide to an Annenberg video, but it contains a wealth of information that is also useful independently. These thirty-four pages offer background information and activity suggestions relating to Gothic undercurrents in...
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Annenberg Learner: This Just In

For Students 9th - 10th
Different forms of media can present different views of the same story. See how your point of view might change as you read an article, watch a news clip and read an online article about the same event.
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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Printing and Thinking

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Focus on the emergence of the printing press and bookmaking. Humanism and other new philosophies of the Renaissance mentioned as well. Also, check out other links to learn more.
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Annenberg Learner: Volcanoes

For Students 9th - 10th
This interactive from Annenberg Learner asks the question of whether erumptions of volcanoes can be predicted. Review what you already know about volcanoes, and move on to forecasting potential. Several short video clips are included as...
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Annenberg Learner: Literature: Describing Setting

For Students 3rd - 8th Standards
Short explanation of setting as a literary term. Written in the context of "What makes a good short story?" A link at the bottom of the page leads to additional information about setting.
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Historical and Cultural Contexts

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This interesting interactive website explains kinds of primary sources and gives you the chance to identify them in some games.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
All things related to the beautiful monarch butterfly are found here! Tons of links to everything you might imagine. Photos, video clips, plus teacher resources are also included.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Resource on the monarch butterfly, which includes migration maps, instructions for tracking and observing migration, and an opportunity to report your sightings. Also provides teacher information and classroom lessons.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Join the celebration by creating paper butterflies that will migrate to their counterparts in Mexico for the winter. Children in Mexico who live beside the monarch's winter sanctuaries send them north in the spring.
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Annenberg Learner: American Passages: Native Voices

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This unit features the rich oral tradition of Native Americans storytelling in various genres predating the introduction and influence of English writings, bringing three contemporary authors to light. RI.11-12.8 seminal U.S. texts,...
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Annenberg Learner: Biography of America: Capital and Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
This thirty-minute video, the seventeenth in a series on American history, examines the rocky relationship between labor, management, and industry from 1882 to 1901. You can also read the transcript, find a map of the Anthracite Strike,...
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Annenberg Learner: u.s. History Map Interactive

For Students 9th - 10th
Become a geography whiz as you learn how the United States was settled. Discover how the continent was irrevocably changed by European colonization, the events that caused the wholesale displacement and decimation of the land's original...
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Elements of a Story

For Students K - 1st Standards
Explore the elements of a story using the well-known Cinderella story as source material. Learn about setting, character, sequence, exposition, conflict, climax, and resolution.
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Annenberg Learner: Rock Cycle Interactives

For Students 9th - 10th
The tutorial examines the rock cycle. Topics included are types of rocks, how rocks change, and a rock cycle diagram. There is also an introduction and an interactive activity to assess learners on concepts analyzed.
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Annenberg Learner: Dynamic Earth Interactives: Plate Tectonics

For Students 9th - 10th
The resource explores the Earth. There are tutorials on plate tectonics, plates and boundaries, and the Earth's structure. There is also an introduction and an interactive activity to test the students on skills taught.