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Annenberg Learner Update
July 2011
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Advance
excellent teaching with Annenberg Learner.
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In the Spotlight for July
Current Events
Annenberg Learner Announcements
- Print
Catalog and Social Media
Annenberg Foundation Update
Curriculum Focus: Summer
Professional Development
Connecting Learning with
Special Days
- Machu
Picchu Discovered July 24, 1911
- Independence
Day, July 4
- Bastille
Day, France's National Holiday, July 14
Notable July Birthdays
- Rube
Goldberg July 4, 1883
- Erno
Rubik July 13, 1944
- Nelson
Mandela July 18, 1918
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Volcanic Activity
Puyehue Volcano in Chile erupted on June 4, 2011 after
being inactive for 51 years. Volcanoes in Iceland and Ethiopia also
have been active in May and June. Volcanoes can be disruptive,
dangerous, and fascinating. Learn about the systems within the
earth’s crust that drive them and how humans on the surface deal with
their explosive nature.
Earth
Revealed, program 13, “Volcanism,” not only details the
features of volcanoes, it also shows how volcanoes provide clues to
what is happening inside our Earth.
See how the small fishing island of Heimaey, Iceland saved its port
from an erupting volcano in 1973. Watch the second half of program 6,
“Challenges
in the Hinterlands” from The Power of Place.
Geographers study Tungurahua, a volcano in Ecuador, in order to
prevent future tragedies from eruptions. Watch this case study in the
second half of workshop 2, “Latin
America,” of Teaching
Geography.
Check our more resources on volcanoes:
Planet
Earth, program 1, “The Living Machine”
Earth
and Space Science, session 4, “The
Engine that Drives the Earth”
Interactives,
Volcanoes
Interactives,
Dynamic Earth
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Annenberg Learner Announcements
Print Catalog
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include a mailing address in your request. Thank you!
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Annenberg Foundation Update
The Annenberg Space for Photography presents BEAUTY
CULTURE, a daring, provocative, and at times, controversial
exhibition that presents diverse viewpoints on beauty as it has
evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries.
The series Art
through Time: A Global View is a complimentary resource
to the BEAUTY CULTURE exhibit. Part 13, “The
Body,” explores how the body has been used for creative
expression throughout time and cultures.
Keep up with news and information about the Annenberg Foundation by
subscribing
to one or more of the Foundation newsletters.
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Curriculum Focus: Summer Professional Development
 For many teachers, summer is a great time to reflect
about the past year and prepare for the new year ahead. Maybe you
want to learn more about an area of your field, discover new
activities to do with your students, or just refresh your current
knowledge and practices. Annenberg Learner’s extensive Web site (learner.org) houses free materials
(videos, interactives, print guides, etc) to help you fulfill
professional development requirements or create your own informal
professional learning group. You can also start working towards fall
graduate credit through Colorado State University. Look at the
enrollment dates, deadlines, and credit availability dates online.
Here are some options by grade level. For a full list
of all professional development workshops and courses visit this page.
Elementary School Workshops
Use Teaching
Reading K-2 to study critical topics for teaching reading
by understanding how literacy research undergirds effective classroom
organization and teaching.
Study multiple art forms and design a multi-arts unit, whether you
are a classroom teacher or arts specialist teacher, with The
Arts in Every Classroom.
Guide your students to become interactive readers with Engaging
with Literature.
Middle School Workshops
In Making
Meaning in Literature, learn techniques to help students
become engaged and enthusiastic readers.
Teaching
Multicultural Literature introduces you to diverse American
writers and the teaching strategies for bringing their work into your
classroom.
Write
in the Middle demonstrates effective practices for
writing instruction.
High School Workshops and Courses
Bridging
World History looks at history as a whole, exploring
themes and global patterns across time and place.
Artifacts
& Fiction: Workshop in American Literature teaches
the use of artifacts within multiple sub disciplines in the study and
interpretation of literature.
Mathematics
Illuminated explores major areas of mathematics, from
humankind's earliest study of prime numbers, to the cutting-edge
mathematics used to reveal the shape of the universe.
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Connecting Learning with Special Days
 Machu Picchu Discovered July 24, 1911
On July 24, 1911, Hiram Bingham discovered Machu Picchu, the ancient
Incan ruin. In Bridging
World History, unit 8, “Early
Economies,” learn about the Inca Empire and view pictures of
Machu Picchu. To better understand how archaeologists
reconstruct social hierarchies from finds at ancient sites, view the
program “Realms” from Out of
the Past.
Independence Day, July 4
In unit 4,"Revolutionary Perspectives," of America's
History in the Making, examine the events leading up to
the signing of the Declaration of Independence and other state
constitutions.
Watch A
Biography of America, program 4, “The
Coming of Independence,” to learn about important events such as
the Boston Massacre, the American Revolution, and the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Program 5, “A
New System of Government,” presents the minds that came together
to create new systems of government for the American people.
Other resources for Independence Day include:
The
Western Tradition, program 37, "The American
Revolution" and program 38, "The American Republic"
American Passages: A
Literary Survey, unit 4,
"Spirit of Nationalism: Declaring Independence, 1710-1850"
American Passages archive
Bastille Day, France's National Holiday, July 14
For background about the French Revolution look at The
Western Tradition, programs 39 and 40, which discuss the
collapse of the monarchy in France as it skidded into the Reign of
Terror.
Immerse yourself in the French language with our popular series, French in
Action. Learn how to start conversations about the
weather, your health, and entertainment, among many topics.
Teaching
Foreign Languages K-12 Library presents eight French
language classrooms from beginning through advanced that serve as
models for crafting effective teaching environments. For
example, in “Chicken
Pox” you will see French immersion kindergarteners demonstrate
their knowledge of body parts as they read Marc Brown's story,
“Arthur a la varicelle” (Arthur has the chicken pox), consolidating
the vocabulary with a song about the chicken pox.
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Notable July Birthdays
Rube Goldberg July 4, 1883
Rube Goldberg is a
Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author known for his
drawings depicting complicated and comical contraptions that perform
simple tasks. In workshop 3, “Transfer and Conversion of Energy,” of Science in
Focus: Energy, for elementary and middle school teachers,
see if you can tell where the energy comes from as you move through
different stages of the Cat-Traption,
a Rube Goldberg-style machine. Have your students create their
own Cat-Traption as part of a STEM learning project.
Erno Rubik July 13, 1944
Erno Rubik is the Hungarian inventor of the Rubik’s cube. Physics for the
21st Century, unit 9, “Biophysics,” section 5, “Free
Energy Landscapes,” explains hierarchical states using a Rubik’s
Cube. In biology, the distance between these states can explain, for
example, how far two species are apart on the evolutionary tree.
Nelson Mandela July 18, 1918
In the Historical
and Cultural Contexts Interactive, look at the language and tone
of speeches and what speeches can tell us about historical context.
The three highlighted speeches
include one by Nelson Mandela.
Invitation to
World Literature, program 5, reviews themes in the Bhagavad Gita,
some of which inspired the philosophy of civil disobedience of Nelson
Mandela.
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