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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Disease Lab
Manipulate characteristics of fictional diseases and see how the changes effect a population. Simulator includes a data table available for download for student records.
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Annenberg Learner: The Arts in Every Classroom Workshop
This online workshop offers information and strategies to help elementary school teachers integrate arts teaching into their curriculum. It includes activities, discussion questions, videos, and links to additional resources.
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Annenberg Learner: Invitation to World Literature: Euripides: The Bacchae
Lesson from a multimedia course on literary world classics considers The Bacchae, by Euripides. Lesson centers on a half-hour video offering multiple perspectives on the work. Read an excerpt from the play and find dozens of rich and...
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Nation Expands: Texas Annexation, 1845
Explains how Texas came to become part of the Union in 1845, at its own request. This precipitated the Mexican-American War.
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: A New System of Government 1776 1826
This module examines America's efforts to form a new government after the War for Independence and to draft the Constitution. Includes an interactive activity comparing Thomas Jefferson's and Alexander Hamilton's visions for America, a...
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson
Consider the perspectives of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and why they made decisions that they did with respect to the American wilderness. The issue is whether the Hetch Hetchy dam should be built to supply water to San...
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Annenberg Learner: The Brain: Teaching Modules
A collection of 32 video learning modules on everything to do with the brain.
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Annenberg Learner: History/social Studies: Adapting and Modifying Sources
This interactive demonstrates how a piece of primary source text can be adapted or modified for readers at different levels of proficiency in order to ensure their understanding.
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Annenberg Learner: Rock Cycle Interactive
An interactive animation showing the rock cycle. By clicking on the different parts of the cycle, students can view definition of rock types and animations of the processes that happen within the cycle.
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives Dna: Human Genome: Genes and Transcription
A learning module where students can learn about the structure and function of DNA. Interactive activities will explore DNA transcription.
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Annenberg Learner: Genetically Modified Organisms
Understand the procedures used in the lab to create a genetically modified organism with this site. Site contains a textbook chapter as well as a video that explores genetically modified organisms and the ethical concerns that accompany...
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Annenberg Learner: Collapse: Why Do Civilizations Fail?
Explore different ancient civilizations to learn about some of the reasons these civilizations collapsed. Looks at Maya, Mesopotamia, Chaco Canyon, Mali and Songhai. Includes interactive activities.
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: America at Centennial 1876: Timeline
A timeline of America's history from 1500 to 1876.
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Annenberg Learner: Civil Rights: Demanding Equality
Teach the history of Civil Rights using this comprehensive learning module. Trace the movement from the 14th Amendment to modern times. The focus is on African American rights but also touches on women and disabled American's rights....
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Annenberg Learner: Carbon Lab
This lab uses a robust model of the carbon cycle to give an intuitive sense for how carbon circulates through the atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, and crust.
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: The Periodic Table
An interactive website where students learn about the basics of an atom, periodic tables organization, and the structure and properties of matter. Module includes an introduction and five lessons that are followed by a quiz and an...
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Annenberg Learner: Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements
A fun way to learn about the periodic table! This interactive table allows students to investigate the basic information of an element as well as explore group and family characteristics.
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Annenberg Learner: The Habitable Planet: Demographics Lab
Explore data in this lab to see how the population demographics are transitioning with this interactive lab.
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Annenberg Learner: Economics Usa: Control the u.s. Debt!
Learn about the different types of expenses that the U.S. budget must pay for and try your hand at balancing the federal budget.
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Annenberg Learner: Exploring the World of Music
This 12-video series examines elements of music such as melody, harmony, rhythm, and texture, and how they are used in a wide variety of music genres in cultures around the world.
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Annenberg Learner: Interactives: Spelling Bee: Introduction
This is an introduction Interactive Spelling Bee; it explains how the game works by grade level: Grades 1-8 listen to three stories separately and spell words from each story; high school students will listen to sentences and spell words...
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterfly
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
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
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.