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Starch and Sugar Testing 2 In this task, students will determine if starch and sugar are present in mixtures. This task includes: |
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Steamboats on Kootenay Lake In this task, students will explore the context of people living around Kootenay Lake, among other communities around surrounding bodies of water. This task includes: |
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Stimulus/Response in Invertebrates In this task, students will design an experiment that will explore how worm's structures allow them to do what they do. This task includes: |
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Suli’s Sense In Suli’s Sense, students are asked to explain if Suli's result was a coincidence. This task includes:
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Sun and Temperatures In this task, students will apply their understandings of the relationship between temperature and environment to solve a problem. This task includes: |
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Survival In this task, students will decide which material to use for a jacket that will be best suited for a cold and windy climate. This task includes: |
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Swinging In this task, students will design modifications to a swing apparatus. This task includes: |
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Tadpoles In this task, students will take a look at the various stages of tadpole development. This task includes: |
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Temperature and Enzymes In this task, students will experiment with mixing rennin and milk. This task includes: |
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Tennis Court Oath This task assesses students' knowledge of the past—but rather than measure rote recall of decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will explain that the representatives depicted signed the Tennis Court Oath, which rejected the doctrine of divine right and pronounced that political power came from the people and their representatives. A strong response to the second question may explain that the huge cost of the Seven Years’ War contributed to a financial crisis in France. This resulted in higher taxes and anger among the public, creating popular discontent. The Tennis Court Oath was a product of this discontent. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors. |
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