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Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music: Timbre: The Color of Music
In this video, explore the creation of timbre and the effects of timbre in different types of music. The video is part of the Exploring the World of Music instructional series. [26:47]
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Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music: Melody
In this video, different aspects of melody are explored and examined showing how melody is used in different forms of music. The video is part of the Exploring the World of Music instructional series. [26:47]
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Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music: Rhythm
In this video, examine how rhythm structures music through a variety of music styles. The video is part of the Exploring the World of Music instructional series. [26:47]
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Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music: Sound Music and the Environment
This video explores the scientific and poetic definitions of music and the impact culture has on music the types of music produced. The video is part of the Exploring the World of Music instructional series. [26:47]
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Annenberg Learner: Strength to Overcome: South Africa and Kenya
Video program featuring two case studies about Africa entitled South Africa: This Land is My Land and Kenya: Medical Geography. The first study explores the post-apartheid government and economy. The second study investigates health care...
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Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: A Nation Divided
This video examines common soldiers defending their purpose in the Civil War and civilians, raising the question of whether the Union actually won the war. [28:25]
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Annenberg Learner: Earth Revealed
To support or supplement a course in earth science or geography, Annenberg Media offers twenty-six Videos on Demand (VoDs). The topics coverd range from why Earth can sustain life, to plate tectonics, to rock types and landscape...
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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Energy in Cycles
Video workshop explores the everyday activities, such as walking, running, or playing a stringed instrument, that generate energy cycles, as well as the reasons energy cycles diminish and the ways to keep them sustained. [58:20]
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Annenberg Learner: Science in Focus: Energy: Understanding Energy
A video workshop looking at the world's use of fossil fuels as an energy source. Includes discussions about the limits of fossil fuel use and the importance of teaching energy conservation and investing in alternative energy sources.
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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: Conversations in Literature
A series of 8 instructional videos, each about 60 minutes in length, designed to model effective reading habits through envisionment building. Topics include Responding As Readers, Envisioning, Stepping In, Moving Through, Rethinking,...