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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Heat, Work, and Efficiency
Video workshop explores how heat is generated and harvested to do useful mechanical work. Video also describes efficiency of an engine, expansion and compression of gases, and friction's relationship to heat. [56:54]
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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Force and Work
What is force and work? The lesson unit and sixty-minute video focus on answering questions about force, work, and power. [55:16]
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Annenberg Learner: Voices & Visions
Thirteen videos on the works and lives of renowned American poets, including Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, and Robert Frost. With performances, interviews, and dramatic readings.
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Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Agriculture and Urban Revolutions
Through archaeological research, this unit consists of the history of agriculture leading to the urban development of early humans as they slowed their transitional foraging to settling into a specific area.
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Annenberg Learner: Bridging World History: Early Belief Systems
This unit explores how humans seem to naturally be drawn to supernatural beliefs and how those religious beliefs aid in forming and sometimes defining many cultures.
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Normal Distributions
A look at how histograms, and the curves that are drawn based on histogram data, can help one analyze data. Video program offers real-life examples to illustrate this: population age and baseball statistics. [28:40]
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Annenberg Learner: Developing Countries: Cote D'ivoire and Gabon
This video program featuring two case studies on Africa entitled Cote d'Ivoire: Cocoa and Change and Gabon: Sustainable Resources? The first study explores the Ivory Coast and its cocoa production and the second study investigates the...
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Annenberg Learner: Power of Place: Ethnic Fragmentation in Canada
This video program featuring two case studies on Canada, entitled Vancouver: Hong Kong East and Montreal: An Island of French. The first study explores the rising Hong Kong Chinese immigrant population and the second study investigates...
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Annenberg Learner: The Maritime Connection: Indonesia and Malaysia
This video program featuring two case studies about Southeast Asia entitled Indonesia: Tourist Invasion and Multicultural Malaysia. The first study explores tourism and the economy within Bali, and the second study investigates the...
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Annenberg Learner: Earth and Space Science: Journey to the Earth's Interior
Material to begin an exploration of the Earth's interior. An hour-long video is accompanied by learning goals, an outline and overview, details on igneous rock, seismic waves, and the Earth's layers, and ideas for teaching this unit in...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Measures of Center
It's helpful to know the center of a distribution, which is what the clerical workers in Colorado Springs found out in the 1980s when they campaigned for comparable wages for comparable work. Mean and median are two different ways to...
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: Models for Growth
Video program looks at linear growth, least squares, and exponential growth, and applies statistics to examine growth patterns in real-life situations: a study of growth problems in children and grwoth of world oil production over time.
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Annenberg Learner: Against All Odds: What Is Probability?
A video program on probability, covering relative frequency, randomness, sample space, and probability rules. Includes a discussion about statistician Persi Diaconis' work with probability theory. [29:06]
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Annenberg Learner: Teacher Resources: Journey North
Four video-segments highlight the study of seasonal change through the "Journey North" website: "Introduction," "Seasonal Migration," "Plants and Seasons," and "Sunlight and Seasons."
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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Many Planets, One Earth (Video)
With this resource, users learn how rocks from millions of years ago give evidence of the emergence of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere. Make the connection between this evidence and the presence of complex animal life on our planet. [28:27]
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Annenberg Learner: Art of Teaching of the Arts Choosing Instructional Approaches
A video workshop for high school arts teachers. This program encourages teachers to examine reasons for choosing certain instructional approaches for teaching the arts and to broaden their repertoire of teaching strategies. Includes...
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Annenberg Learner: Art of Teaching the Arts: Creating Rich Learning Environments
A video workshop for high school arts teachers. This program focuses on creating an environment in the classroom where students feel safe to take risks and use artistic expression. The workshop encourages teachers to provide constructive...
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Annenberg Learner: Art of Teaching the Arts Addressing Diverse Needs of Students
A video workshop that helps foster teaching the arts to a diverse student population. This program focuses on how to adapt teaching to different learning styles, recognizing students come from diverse cultural background, and adjusting...
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Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom: Teaching Dance
Any classroom that is looking to integrate dance as an art form into the curriculum could use this resource for ideas. There are suggested activities and discussion for professional development, curriculum planning and community outreach.
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Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: Building Community
In this video [18:59], you will watch Latosha Rowley working with her fourth and fifth graders in a multiage setting as they discuss their novels - all historical fiction - in small groups. You will then join them as they decide on a...
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Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: Finding Common Ground
In this video [18:59], Bileni Teklu often focuses classroom instruction on developing her students' enjoyment of reading and appreciation for literature. Beginning each lesson with a brief 10- to 15-minute mini-lesson, Ms. Teklu devotes...
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Annenberg Learner: Engaging With Literature: A Video Library: Sharing the Text
This video clip serves as a source for professional development. In the video, third grade teacher, BJ Namba, shares her approach in facilitating book clubs. Her goals are related to empowering students to take charge of their...
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Texas Gateway: Book Buddies: Engaging With Literature
Watch as two teachers create Book Buddies with 3rd and 5th graders in this half-hour video from "Engaging with Literature". Book Buddies offers students a chance to explore a book they are familiar with in new ways.
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Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom: Teaching Theatre
Theatre teachers can learn some theatre exercises to use with students to develop creative listening and thinking skills. Also, learn about how one teacher uses basic and advanced theatre skills to create varying learning goals for...