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Walking the Halls In this task, students will interview people associated with the school to create a presentation that preserves the stories people have associated with the school. This task includes: |
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Wall of Names The Wall of Names task is designed to support student self-expression using various artistic devices and to teach them to cherish intercultural exchanges. This task includes discussion, research, writing, and creating art. The task includes a description of a possible classroom activity. |
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War. What is it Good For? In this task, students pick a topic of interest and work in groups to create an article idea for TIME magazine. This task includes: |
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Washington Crosses Delaware This task measures students’ ability to source a document. When historians interpret a document, they first look to find out who wrote it and when. This information presents important clues about whether the source provides reliable evidence about the past. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced, and the event that it depicts. Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that the painting shown in this task is of little use to historians who wish to understand the Battle of Trenton, because it was produced 100 years after the event. The task includes a range of supplementary materials, all accessible and available for download with the creation of a free account through the site:
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Water - Holding Capacity In this task, students will determine how much water various materials can hold. This task includes: |
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Water Regulation In this task, students will examine graphs about paramecia behavior under various conditions. This task includes: |
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Water Temperature The Water Temperature task is part of the Hydrosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will measure the temperature of water. They will construct simple thermometers to understand how and why liquid-in-glass thermometers work. This task includes:
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Water Transparency The Water Transparency task is part of the Hydrosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will measure water transparency at their undisturbed study site using a transparency tube or Secchi disk. They will construct a secchi disk to measure water transparency. This task includes:
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Water Vapor The Water Vapor task is part of the Atmosphere Unit from Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment (GLOBE). In this task, students will use a near-infrared sun photometer to measure the amount of sunlight reaching the ground at wavelengths that are correlated to water vapor. This task includes:
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Welcome to Our School In Welcome to Our School students will identify forms of harassment and describe strategies for dealing with each in addition to sources of help; describe disease prevention strategies related to spread of communicable diseases and how they would be practiced; describe health and fitness goals and how they might help keep students physically fit. This task includes:
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