Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Facts About Earthworms

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource on earthworms, offering the following sections: "Facts about Earthworms," "Migration and Annual Cycle," and "Lessons Activities and Information."
Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Caribou

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource that contains facts about caribou, challenge questions, lessons, activities and migration information. The migration pattern of the caribou is also tracked.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Oriole

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource that deals with the characteristics, life cycle, ecology, and conservation of the Oriole. In addition, there are lessons and activities that can be used in the classroom. The migration and annual cycle are also...
Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Adaptations: Fit for Survival

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This lesson plan will help students explore adaptation, especially as it relates to migration. Students will come to realize that adaptations can be behavioral as well as physical. Students are assigned a particular animal to investigate...
Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Hummingbird

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive resource on hummingbirds, organized into the following sections: "How to Track Hummingbird Migration," "Migration Updates," "All About Hummingbirds," "Lessons, Activities, and Information," "Challenge Questions," and "Ask...
Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Whooping Cranes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track the migration of whooping cranes, once on the verge of extinction. Follow new crane chicks from their hatching to the day they complete their first fall migration at 5 to 6 months of age.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Signs of Spring: Frogs

For Students 9th - 10th
A comprehensive presentation that answers a number of questions about frogs. In addition, this resource contains lessons and activities that can be used in the classroom. A general overview is given of migration and the annual cycle.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Hummingbirds

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe hummingbirds and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Monarch Butterflies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe monarch butterflies and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: American Robin

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Observe robins and report their sightings online. Share and review the sightings with other students/classrooms to track hemispheric migratory patterns.
Activity
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Bald Eagles

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track bald eagle migration. Report your sightings and observations to the bald eagle tracking map.
Handout
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Gray Whales

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track gray whale migration. Use live data to observe migration patterns.
Website
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Annenberg Learner: Legislatures and Democracy Recap: The Lawmakers

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
You are a congressperson trying to pass your education bill. Join in the extensive public debate, committee work, and parliamentary maneuvering necessary to achieve majority legislative support for your bill.
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Annenberg Learner: Journey North: Tulip Gardens

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Track tulip growth as the season changes from winter to spring. See how temperature, rainfall, and sunshine affect growth and help scientists look for patterns of climate change.
Article
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Annenberg Learner: Motivating Middle School Students to Revise and Edit [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards
This article explores the idea of authentic audiences and student publication for motivating student writers.
Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: Tr and Wilson

For Students 9th - 10th
A website regarding the presidency of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Site contains key events in the United States and the world from 1898 to 1919, a map of the United States' expansion of its empire, a video with full transcript...
Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Twenties 1913 1929

For Students 9th - 10th
How would you describe the 1920s? The decade was called the Roaring Twenties, the beginning of modern America. Take a look at the economic prosperity, prohibition, popular culture, and the invention of the automobile, then you decide, a...
Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Fifties 1945 1960

For Students 9th - 10th
World War II ends with the legacy of its final moment: the atomic bomb. After reading comprehensive background material, interactive feature lets you decide if President Truman was correct in his decision to drop atomic bombs on...
Unit Plan
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Annenberg Learner: A Biography of America: The Sixties 1954 1974

For Students 9th - 10th
Interactive feature lets you decide if the feminist movement of the 1960s improved American women's lives. Covers the areas of politics, business, professions, family, and independence. See how your vote compares with others that have...
Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: The Control a Haber Bosch Ammonia Plant

For Students 9th - 10th
An activity where students try to optimize profits by producing the largest daily output of ammonia by simulating the Haber-Bosch process. Students will use their knowledge of equilibrium reactions and the effects of variables like...
Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Chemistry Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
An interactive timeline that marks the important people, events, and discoveries in the world of chemistry.
Interactive
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Annenberg Learner: Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Do you the factors that cause a disease to spread? In this simulation, figure out how to counter the spread of diseases!
Handout
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Annenberg Classroom: Speak Out: How Does Local Government Affect You?

For Students 9th - 10th
Explains how a local government impacts on the individual by looking at where they get their authority, their structure, how they function, and how to contact a local political representative.
Article
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Annenberg Learner: Water Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Freshwater accounts for only some 6 percent of the world's water supply, but is essential for human uses such as drinking, agriculture, manufacturing, and sanitation. As discussed above, two-thirds of global freshwater is found underground.