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President Grant and Horace Greeley This assessment gauges students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a document. Students must consider how the contextual information about John Defrees's pamphlet on Grant's presidency affects its reliability as historical evidence. Then, students must identify other information that would help them further evaluate the reliability of the pamphlet. 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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Printing Tickets In this task, students will use graphs and illustrate the best possible choices for printing, in terms of cost efficiency, for ticket printing. Similar to Best Buy Tickets, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Propane Tanks In this task, students will be given the measurements of a particular propane tank. Their assignment is to calculate what radius length is required to double the volume capacity. This task includes: |
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Pythagorean Triples This task asks students to explore the relationships between Pythagorian triples, or numbers that fullfill the Pythagorean Theorem. This task includes: |
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Radiation Decay In this task, students will simulate the process of radioactive decay and half-life to understand the concept. This task includes: |
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Radioactive Decay In this task, students will investigate and understand the relationship between radioactive decay and half-life. This task includes: |
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Rain Drops In this task, students will examine raindrops on various materials used on the outside of buildings. This task includes: |
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Rate Of Cooling Design In this task, students will design and conduct an experiment that measures the ability of various materials to insulate. This task includes: |
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Rate of Cooling Experiment In this task, students will design and conduct an experiment that measures the ability of various materials to insulate. This is done along with "Rate of Cooling Design". This task includes: |
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Rate of Solvation In this task, students will explore what factors effect the rate at which a sugar cube will dissolve in water. This task includes: |
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