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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Plague Begins
Describes the society of the Middle ages and the effect of the Plague on these societies of the Renaissance.
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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: New Middle Class
Describes the rise of a new middle class during the Italian Renaissance and the resulting growth in Italian cities.
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Annenberg Learner: Garbage: How Can My Community Reduce Waste?
A website devoted to the challenge of reducing solid waste for the good of our environment.
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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance Explorers
Overview of the motives behind the exploration of the "new world" during the Renaissance. Discusses the trading that took place between the "new world" and Europe and various riches offered in Mexico and Latin America.
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Annenberg Learner: Renaissance: Printing and Thinking
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: Patterns in Mathematics: Mystery Operations
This interactive activity allows you to change an equation's numbers in an attempt to figure out what operations are being used to control the answers.
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Annenberg Learner: Patterns in Mathematics: People Patterns
This interactive website offers young students an opportunity to discover the pattern and predict who will come next. Feedback and guidance are given for each response. It also offers three increasingly difficult levels that are available.
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Annenberg Learner: Alien Eyes
Explore parallax which causes each of your eyes to produce slightly different images. Then imagine yourself an alien and try to predict which images each of your four eyes see.
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Annenberg Learner: Interest Group Recap
There are special interest groups for many purposes, and you likely belong to one without even knowing it. Find out which groups might be of interest to you.
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Annenberg Learner: Plate Interactions Challenge
Identify real-world cases of boundary interactions and predict the most likely future geologic outcomes. In the lightning round, unscramble four geologic terms.
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Annenberg Learner: Story Weaver
Reflect on a medieval tapestry and write a story about what you think is going on. Read stories that other site visitors have written about the tapestry.
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Annenberg Learner: Creating a Line Plot
Watch as a physical stack of coins is added as a series of dots to a line plot.
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Annenberg Learner: Geometry: Circles: Inscribed Angles
Study inscribed angles in semicircles and quarter-circles. What conjectures can you make about the measure of an inscribed angle in semi- or quarter-circles?
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Annenberg Learner: Organizing Data in a Stem and Leaf Plot
A stem and leaf plot is a graphical representation for investigating variation. You will convert an ordered stem and leaf display grouped by tens into an ordered display grouped by fives.
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Annenberg Learner: Reasoning About Fractions
Apply the reasoning and proof standard to a problem based on the Fraction Tracks game. Students practice building fractions by combining fraction pieces.
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Annenberg Learner: Converting English Lengths
Practice converting lengths from one British unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Converting English Mass Units
Practice converting mass from one British unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Converting Metric Mass Units
Practice converting mass from one metric unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Converting Metric Volume
Practice converting volume from one metric unit to another. Use your calculator if you need to.
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Annenberg Learner: Sampling the Electorate
As the pollster for candidate Higgins, you need to know how she is faring with different groups. Read her political profile, view the demographic profile of the city, decide on the groups to poll, review the results and learn about...
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Annenberg Learner: Shadows
Can you judge an object by its shadow? Use your mental rotation skills to determine if a shadow can be produced by a particular shape.
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Annenberg Learner: Tungurahua Timeline
The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador has gone through a series of active and dormant periods. Follow the volcano's activity from 1773 to 2000, including a scene of an explosive eruption in 1999.
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Annenberg Learner: Math in Daily Life
Read about what math has to do with cooking, chances of winning a game, even decorating your home. Teachers may want to peruse this site for ideas about real world applications in their lesson planning.
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Annenberg Learner: Weather: The Water Cycle
An article about the water cycle and the role that water plays in cloud formation.