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Annenberg Learner: The Middle Ages: Forming Town Governments
Briefly describes the advent of town councils in the Middle Ages.
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Annenberg Learner: The Middle Ages: Town Life
Focuses on the impact merchants had upon town life in the Middle Ages. Includes a series of articles on different facets of Medieval life such as religion, homes, and government.
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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: Renaissance: Florentine Art and Architecture
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: Garbage: Hazardous Waste
A concise site that defines hazardous waste and looks at who is responsible for contaminating our planet.
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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: Literature: Constructing Plot
This site has an explanation of the elements of a plot with clear examples. Click on "What goes into plot" for more information.
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Annenberg Learner: 5 Question Survey: Heat and Temperature
Find out your or your students' understanding of heat and temperature. Afterwards you can see how others answered the questions.
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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: 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: Ecology Lab
Build your own ecosystem, and explore the effects of these interrelationships.
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Annenberg Learner: Amusement Park Physics: The Principles of Free Fall
An article describing free fall principles in roller coaster rides. In addition to the explanation of free fall, an experiment is described that allows you to test free fall with a cup of water. Part of a larger presentation on roller...
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Annenberg Learner: Watching the Seasons Change: Fall
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with fall by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
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Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life: Home Decorating
This exhibit is designed to show students that geometry really does apply to the real world. By taking viewers through a home decoration project, students learn how to calculate area of a rectangle and circle.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Watching the Seasons Change: Spring
This is an appropriate resource for investigating the impact seasonal change has on organisms. Have your students track the changes that come with spring by journaling. The online table addresses physical changes in the environment...
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Meet the Whale Expert: Anne Smrcina
Meet the Whale Expert, Anne Smrcina! Learn about her exciting career working with humpback whales.