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Spinner Bingo In this task, students must come up with a winning strategy to filling out their bingo card. This task includes: |
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Staff Class to the Past: Time Travel Through US History In this task, students will participate in a Socratic seminar to determine 16 of the most influential and important U.S. historical events. Once chosen, students will create a "wormhole" to experience these events and create a visual representation about what they went through. This task includes: |
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Standard Oil Company This task assesses students' ability to evaluate the relevance of contextual information for determining the motivations of an author. Students must select two facts from a cartoon made by Udo Keppler in 1904, and explain how they shed light on his depiction of Standard Oil. Students with a strong understanding of contextualization will be able to explain how the company's growing control over the oil industry, and Tarbell's muckraking reports on Standard Oil, may have influenced Keppler's depiction. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors. |
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Star Power! In Star Power! students will perform a memorized monologue. This task includes:
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Starch and Sugar Testing 1 In this task, students will determine if sugar and starch are in unknown mixtures. This task includes: |
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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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Start Right! In Start Right! students will create a warm-up focused on alignment. 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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Stippling Self Portraits In this task, students will learn the artistic technique of stippling by practicing on various materials before creating a self portrait. This task includes: |
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