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Welcome to McGraw-Hill Educations

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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
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the TEKS in every lesson
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HOW TO USE THE ONLINE TEACHER EDITION

TO THE TEACHER
Here you will access your Online Lesson Plans, worksheets, tests and quizzes,
and many other teaching resources.

IN TO EXPLORE THE
1 LOG
TEACHER LESSON CENTER
Using your Internet browser, go to

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Enter your username and password

Username: txnetworks
Password: lonestar1

2 SELECT YOUR PROGRAM

Click your program to launch the home page
of your Online Teacher Lesson Center.

Using Your Home Page

Your home page provides quick access to all of your teaching resources.

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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

HOME PAGE
To return to your home page at any time, click the
networks logo in the top left corner of the page.

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)

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.

Locate teaching materials in the Resource Library

HELP

STUDENT EDITION
Click to open the online student edition.

ANNOTATED STUDENT EDITION

CALENDAR
Create classes and then use the planner to track
lesson plans, events, and assignments.

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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

Click to open the student edition showing sample

answers to questions and activities.

MESSAGES
Recent messages from your students will appear
here. To view the full message, click the message
or click See All.

HOW TO USE THE ONLINE TEACHER EDITION

Using Your Online Lesson Plans

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.

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.

2 LECTURE NOTES
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.

AND
3 LEVELED
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).

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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.

5 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.

6 PRESENTATION VIEWER
The Presentation Viewer includes a series
of 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.

HOW TO USE THE ONLINE TEACHER EDITION

Finding Resources
1 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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2 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.

3 LAUNCH RESOURCES
Click on the image of each resource to launch
it and view its content.

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4 RESOURCE LIBRARY
Hundreds of additional resources are available
in the Resource Library. Click the Resources tab
to enter the library.

You can search the Resource Library by lesson or

keyword.

7 UPLOAD YOUR OWN RESOURCES

5 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.

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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HOW TO USE THE ONLINE TEACHER EDITION

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.

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1 ASSESS
Click on the Assess tab for test preparation
activities and rubrics, and to access the
eAssessment Test Generator.

2 LAUNCH EASSESSMENT
Click the eAssessment launch
image to open the eAssessment
test generator.

3 CREATING TESTS
Drag questions from the question banks into
the empty window to create and edit tests.

4 EDITABLE WORKSHEETS
Many worksheets available
in the program can be edited
within eAssessment.

Using the Text Levels Selector

1 MANAGE YOUR CLASS

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Click Manage and Assign to set up your

classes, send assignments to students,
check student messages.

2 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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HOW TO USE THE ONLINE STUDENT EDITION

TO THE STUDENT
Here you will access your Online Student Edition
as well as many other learning resources.

LOG IN TO EXPLORE THE

STUDENT LEARNING CENTER
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Enter your username and password

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SELECT YOUR PROGRAM

Click your program to launch
the home page of your Online Student
Learning Center.

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Using Your Home Page

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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.

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.

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

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.

ONLINE STUDENT EDITION

Go to your Online Student Edition by
selecting the chapter and lesson and
then click Go.

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Using Your Online Student Edition

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SET TEXT SIZE

PRINT
HIGHLIGHT

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LESSON MENU

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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.

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.

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.

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.

5 SPANISH EDITION
If your program includes a
Spanish edition, click here to
open a window with the text
in Spanish.
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CHANGE PAGES
Click here to move to the next page in
the lesson.

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

Reading and Writing Support in the Online Student

Your Online Student Edition contains several features to help improve
your reading skills and understanding of the content.

LESSON VOCABULARY
Click Vocabulary to bring up a list of terms
introduced in this lesson.

VOCABULARY POP-UP
Click on any term highlighted in yellow to
open a window with the terms definition.

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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.

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.

GRAPHIC ORGANIZER

Click Reading Strategies to open a note-taking

activity using a graphic organizer.

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.

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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.
Networks provides many kinds of resources. This
symbol shows that the resource is a slide show.

LAUNCHING RESOURCES
Clicking a resource in the viewer launches an
interactive resource.

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.

INTERACTIVE MAPS
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.

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
chapters events.

The map and time line are both interactive. You can click
on the map and the time line for an interactive version.

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QUESTIONS AND ACTIVITIES

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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.

When a question uses an image or graph or map, it will

appear in the viewer.

Finding Other Resources

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.
You can search the Resource Library
by keyword.

Click the star to mark a resource

as a favorite.

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