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Welcome to McGraw-Hill Education’s networks™ online teacher lesson center. Networks™ gathers everything you need in one easy-to-use Teacher Lesson Center. Use the McGraw-Hill Education lesson plans and resources or customize your lessons to teach how you want to teach.
Built to the TEKS to ensure comprehensive coverage
Engages students with interactive resources and compelling stories
Provides rigorous, differentiated instruction for every learning style
Allows you to effectively manage and organize your classroom
Powerful classroom presentations: premade and customizable, built to the TEKS in every lesson
Differentiated instruction and assignments can be tailored to meet the needs of all students, and can be printed or sent to students online
Teach with traditional lecture and presentation or discussion groups, flip your class, or integrate project-based learning where appropriate
Messaging Center connects you to students
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Chapter Level Resources
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TO THE TEACHER Here you will access your Online Lesson Plans, worksheets, tests and quizzes, and many other teaching resources.
SELECT YOUR PROGRAM
Click your program to launch the home page of your Online Teacher Lesson Center.
LOG IN TO EXPLORE THE TEACHER LESSON CENTER
Using your Internet browser, go to connected.mcgraw-hill.com
Enter your username and password
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HOW TO USE THE ONLINE TEACHER EDITION
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MAIN MENU
Use the menu bar to:• Access Lesson Plans• Manage your classroom and send assignments
to students• Link to the eAssessment Test Generator to edit
and create your own tests and quizzes
• Locate teaching materials in the Resource Library
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Click to open the student edition showing sample answers to questions and activities.
Using Your Home Page
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QUICK LINKS MENU
Use this menu to access:• My Notes (your personal notepad)• My Files (you can upload your own files to use
with the lesson plans)• My Planner• My Messages• TEKS and ELPS tool (provides location of TEKS
and ELPS coverage)
LESSON SELECTOR
To open a lesson plan, select the chapter, then choose the chapter materials you need:• Lesson Plans (lecture notes, activities,
and resources for each lesson)• Activities to help introduce and wrap-up
the chapter• Activities and resources to help with
intervention and Remediation• Activities to support Gifted and
Talented students
MESSAGES
Recent messages from your students will appear here. To view the full message, click the message or click See All.
CALENDAR
Create classes and then use the planner to track lesson plans, events, and assignments.
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HOME PAGE
To return to your home page at any time, click the networks™ logo in the top left corner of the page.
Your home page provides quick access to all of your teaching resources.
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STUDENT EDITION
Click to open the online student edition.
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HELP
For videos, professional development, and assistance with the features of networks™, click Help.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Use the carousel to browse the Resource Library and select the category of resources you want to search.
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Using Your Online Lesson Plans
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If you click Customize, you can edit, revise, and rearrange these notes to suit your needs and save them as a custom lesson plan. You can also print copies of the lecture notes.
ACTIVITIES AND WORKSHEETS
Within each section of the lesson is a list of interactive activities, printable worksheets, and other resources. Click each activity to launch it.
LEVELED AND DIFFERENTIATED ACTIVITIES
Activities within each lesson are identified if they are appropriate for Approaching Level (AL) or Beyond Level (BL) students, and whether they are appropriate for English Language Learners (ELL).
Each lesson plan is divided into sections that follow the teaching cycle: Engage, Teach and Assess, Close and Reflect. Each section includes lecture notes, activities, questions, prompts, and links to lesson resources. Click the arrow beside each section to open it.
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Lesson plans also contain activities and questions for using the student edition content within the lesson. The activities are coded by the type of skills they help to develop.
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PRESENTATION VIEWER
The Presentation Viewer includes a seriesof tools to let you draw on the presentation slides, insert text, play audio (if available), or re-order the slides. You can also upload and insert your own slides to customize your presentations.
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LESSON PRESENTATIONS
Click Lesson Presentation inside lesson plans to launch a pre-built presentation. Each presentation is made up of a series of slides showing resources, interactive activities, and worksheets suitable for whole-class instruction.
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Finding Resources
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TYPES OF RESOURCES
All of the resources for a particular chapter or lesson are listed. You can quickly identify available worksheets, activities, projects, and options to review, assess, remediate, and differentiate.
LAUNCH RESOURCES
Click on the image of each resource to launch it and view its content.
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USING CHAPTER RESOURCES AT A GLANCE
At the top of the lesson, select the chapter you want to search, and then select Chapter Resources at a Glance. Open the sections below to locate resources for the whole chapter or for specific lessons. Answer keys are also available for chapter and lesson activities.
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RESOURCE MENU
Click the Resource tabs to find collections of Primary Sources, Biographies, Social Studies Skills activities, Foldables®, Professional Development materials, and printable files of the Reading Essentials and Study Guide workbook.
SEARCH
You can search the Resource Library by lesson or keyword.
UPLOAD YOUR OWN RESOURCES
Click My Files in the Resource Menu. Then click Upload New Files. Locate files on your computer and upload them into My Files for use in your own custom lesson plans and presentations.
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RESOURCE LIBRARY
Hundreds of additional resources are available in the Resource Library. Click the Resources tab to enter the library.
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Using the eAssessment Test Generator
All of your chapter tests, lesson quizzes, and editable worksheets are available in eAssessment. You can use the existing test questions, edit them to meet classroom needs, or create your own questions and tests from scratch.
LAUNCH EASSESSMENT
Click the eAssessment launch image to open the eAssessment test generator.
CREATING TESTS
Drag questions from the question banks into the empty window to create and edit tests.
EDITABLE WORKSHEETS
Many worksheets available in the program can be edited within eAssessment.
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ASSESS
Click on the Assess tab for test preparation activities and rubrics, and to access the eAssessment Test Generator.
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Using the Text Levels Selector
ASSIGNING DIFFERENT READING LEVELS FOR THE ONLINE STUDENT EDITION
Once classes are set up in your Manage and Assign center, you can assign an Approaching Level edition of the text narrative to individual students. The Approaching Level text is written two levels below the regular student edition text.
[For high school editions only]An English Language Learner edition of the text is also provided. The ELL edition uses the Approaching Level text but includes additional activities and support to help English language learners.
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MANAGE YOUR CLASS
Click Manage and Assign to set up your classes, send assignments to students, check student messages.
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Welcome to McGraw-Hill Education’s networks™ online student learning center. Both the accessible, engaging, student-friendly text and the Student Learning Center draw your students into the content. Bring the people, places, and stories to life with rich, interactive visuals, audio, and video.
All the Content and Tools Students Need for Success – Anywhere, Anytime.
• Well-written narrative brings the story to life and fully meets the TEKS
• Relevant videos and dynamic visuals for capturing students’ attention
• Rich, interactive maps, infographics, and games for digging deeper into concepts
• Foldables® reading and vocabulary support to increase reading comprehension
• Projects and activities provide context for hands-on learning
• MHE Exclusive: LearnSmart™, including the only adaptive reading and learning experience designed to change the way students read and learn
Meet the TEKS. Master the content. Engage students by helping them explore the world.
Foldables®
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Infographic
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TO THE STUDENT Here you will access your Online Student Edition as well as many other learning resources.
SELECT YOUR PROGRAM
Click your program to launch the home page of your Online Student Learning Center.
LOG IN TO EXPLORE THE STUDENT LEARNING CENTER
Using your Internet browser, go to connected.mcgraw-hill.com
Enter your username and password
Username: txnetworks15Password: networks15
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ONLINE STUDENT EDITION
Go to your Online Student Edition by selecting the chapter and lesson and then click Go.
MAIN MENU
Use the menu bar to access:• The Online Student Edition• Skills Builder (for activities to improve your skills)• Assignments and Projects• Resource Library• Test Prep• Collaborate with Classmates
Using Your Home Page
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QUICK LINKS MENU
Use this menu to access:• My Notes (your personal notepad)• Messages• The online Glossary • The online Atlas • BTW (current events website for social studies)• College and Career Readiness (CCR) materials• TEKS and ELPS tool (provides location of TEKS and ELPS coverage)
HELP
For videos and assistance with the various features of the Networks system, click Help.
ASSIGNMENTS
Go to your Online Student Edition by selecting the chapter and lesson and then click Go.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Use the carousel to browse the Resource Library.
MESSAGES
Recent messages from your teacher will appear here. To view the full message, click the message or click See All.
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To return to your home page at any time, click the Networks logo in the top left corner of the page.
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LESSON RESOURCES
Use the carousel to browse the interactive resources available in this lesson. Click on a resource to open it in the viewer below.
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AUDIO EDITION
Click on the headphones symbol to have the page read to you. MP3 files for downloading each lesson are available in the Resource Library.
RESOURCE VIEWER
Click on the image that appears in the viewer to launch an interactive resource, including:• Lesson Videos• Interactive Photos and Slide Shows• Interactive Maps• Interactive Charts and Graphs• Games• Self-Check Quizzes for each lesson
LESSON MENU
• Use the tabs to open the different lessons and special features in a chapter or unit.• Clicking on the unit or chapter title will open the table of contents.
RESOURCES FOR THIS PAGE
Resources appear in the middle column to show that they go with the text on this page. Click the images to open them in the viewer.
SET TEXT SIZE
HIGHLIGHT
CHANGE PAGES
Click here to move to the next page in the lesson.
SPANISH EDITION
If your program includes a Spanish edition, click here to open a window with the text in Spanish.
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Reading and Writing Support in the Online Student
GRAPHIC ORGANIZER
Click Reading Strategies to open a note-taking activity using a graphic organizer.
MY NOTES
Click My Notes to open the note-taking tool. You can write and save any notes you want in the Lesson Notes tab.
LESSON VOCABULARY
Click Vocabulary to bring up a list of terms introduced in this lesson.
Your Online Student Edition contains several features to help improve your reading skills and understanding of the content.
Click on the Guided Notes tab to view the Guided Reading Questions. Answering these questions will help you build a set of notes about the lesson.
Click the image of the graphic organizer to make it interactive. You can type directly into the graphic organizer and save or print your notes.
VOCABULARY POP-UP
Click on any term highlighted in yellow to open a window with the term’s definition.
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Using Interactive Resources in the Online Student Edition
Each lesson of your Online Student Edition contains many resources to help you learn the content and skills you need to know for this subject.
QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
When a resource appears in the viewer, there are usually 1 or 2 questions or activities beneath it. You can type and save your answers in the answer boxes and submit them to your teacher.
CHAPTER FEATURE
Each chapter begins with a feature called Place and Time. They include maps, primary sources, and a time line to help you understand the place and time of the chapter’s events.
LAUNCHING RESOURCES
Clicking a resource in the viewer launches an interactive resource.
The map and time line are both interactive. You can click on the map and the time line for an interactive version.
Networks provides many kinds of resources. This symbol shows that the resource is a slide show.
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When a map appears in the viewer, click on it to launch the interactive map. You can use the drawing tool to mark up the map. You can also zoom in and turn layers on and off to display different information. Drag the scale onto the map to measure distances. Many maps have animations and audio as well.
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Finding Other Resources
When a question uses an image or graph or map, it will appear in the viewer.
CHAPTER ASSESSMENT
At the end of each chapter is the assessment tab. Here you can test your understanding of what you have learned. You can type and save answers in the answer boxes and submit them to your teacher.
There are hundreds of additional resources available in the Resource Library. Click the Resources tab to enter the library.
RESOURCE LIBRARY
Click the links to find collections of Primary Sources, Biographies, Skills Activities and the Reading Essentials and Study Guide.
Click the star to mark a resource as a favorite.
You can search the Resource Library by keyword.
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