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A Golden Crown? This task uses ratios and proportional relationships to determine if the King's crown is made of solid gold. This task includes: |
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A Pound of Valentine’s Chocolates In A Pound of Valentine’s Chocolates, students are asked to find how long a one pound box of chocolates should last if Isolde eats it alone. The key concepts are fractions and proportional reasoning. This task includes:
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Career Explorations This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: Students will investigate the varied career opportunities available within the health and biomedical sciences. They will conduct research on possible career paths and investigate the skills needed for each one. This unit will also give students an opportunity to learn about typical activities in various jobs and help them identify potential careers that match their interests, strengths, and goals. In addition, students will explore the broader social and economic impact of their career choices, while reviewing the historical origins of various health-related careers and their significance to the welfare of humankind. |
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Catch the Fever This unit includes an unit overview and 3 subunit overviews with built-in lessons. Unit description from the source: In this unit, students will explore the emergence and impact of communicable diseases on society. Students will investigate the role of microorganisms in causing disease. They will study the impact of a public health infrastructure, along with medical and pharmaceutical advances, on the evolution of microorganisms. |
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Domino Effect In this task, students must break down the final pizza price Dominos offers and calculate how much they charge per ingredient using linear equations. This task includes: |
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New-Tritional Info In this task, students will calculate how much time of exercise it would take to burn off various McDonalds menu items. They will then expand on this topic with two additional project tasks. This task includes: |
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On Your Mark In this task, students must explore if height creates an unfair advantage in Olympic races and determine what would happen if they were organized differently. For example, if races were not one distance for every participant, but if that distance depended on one's height. Students will then explore further through two additional project tasks. This task includes: |
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Ostrich Llama Count In Ostrich Llama Count students are given the combined number of heads and legs of ostriches and llamas. Using that information they are asked to explain how Raul and Esteban might have figured out how many ostriches and llamas there were. The key concepts are logical/algebraic reasoning and possibly systems of equations. This task includes:
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Sale! In this task, students must examine four sale ofers and calculate which offers the largest and smallest price reduction. This task includes: |
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Security Camera This task requires students to determine the most optimal security camera placement in a store to prevent shoplifting and provides a diagram with people throughout the store in order to give a quantatative visual. This task includes: |
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