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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: Learner: Bridging World History
An inquiry-based, multimedia course aiding in the instruction of world history. Understand the impact of primary sources, time and space, human relationship, and many other aspects over the entire history of the world. Units are...
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Annenberg Learner: How Did Cape Cod Form? Evidence From Mountain Glaciers
Explore how ice shapes a landscape in this video. This video explains how Cape Cod formed from a mountain glacier. [4:04]
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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 Classroom: The Legislative Process: How a Bill Becomes a Federal Law
Video [19:00] in which Senator Diane Feinstein and Representative Pete Sessions discuss with a group of high school students the legislative process. An informative explanation with visuals and anecdotal information to support...
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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 Classroom: A Conversation on the Constitution: Search and Seizure
Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and a group of high school students discuss the Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure in the context of the landmark Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio and the importance of...
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Annenberg Classroom: The Role of the Courts
In these five videos, judges explain separation of powers and the roles of the three branches of government as well as landmark cases related to separation of powers. Judges also review the system of checks and balances, and why it's...
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Annenberg Classroom: Key Constitutional Concepts
This three-part documentary discusses why and how the Constitution was created at the Constitutional Convention and explores the protection of individuals' rights in the Supreme Court case Gideon v. Wainwright and limits on presidential...
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Annenberg Classroom: One Person, One Vote Video
In this documentary, Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Stephen G. Breyer and other experts discuss how the principle of one person, one vote emerged from a series of landmark decisions in the 1960s, including Baker v. Carr and Reynolds v....
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Annenberg Classroom: A Conversation on the Constitution: Freedom of Speech
Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony M. Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor and students discuss students' free speech rights in the Supreme Court cases Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District and Morse v. Frederick. In the...
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Annenberg Classroom: A Conversation on the Origin of the Supreme Court
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and a group of students discuss the Supreme Court: its history and evolution; how the justices select, hear and decide cases; and the role of an independent judiciary and other issues crucial to a...
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Annenberg Classroom: The Right to Trial by an Impartial Jury
Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Stephen G. Breyer and Anthony M. Kennedy and high school students discuss the Sixth Amendment right to trial by an impartial jury in the context of Edmonson v. Leesville Concrete Co. In this landmark jury...
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Annenberg Classroom: A Conversation on the Constitution: Jury Service
Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy discuss the history and responsibilities of juries and the role they play in the U.S. judicial system. (10 min)