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Marriage Customs Around the World In this task, students will exchange marriage customs from their cultures to gain insight into marriage practices around the world and explore the roles of behavior and tolerance. This task includes: |
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Math Club Mystery In Math Club Mystery students are asked to find out how many students, teachers and parents went on a trip to the movies. The key concept is to set up equations that represent the given information and use those equations to determine, from the given information the possible combinations of students, teachers and parents that were on the trip. This task includes:
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Medicine in My Backyard In this task, students will research and explore the usefulness of medicinal plants. They will present their findings to the community so that they will all be able to make more informed decisions and incorporate medicinal plants into daily life. This task includes: |
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Money Matters In this task, students will collaborate with participating classes in discussing their opinions of money in an online forum. This task includes: |
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Morale after Fredericksburg This is a two-part task asking students to source and corroborate a primary source letter from a Union soldier describing low morale among Union soldiers after the Battle of Fredericksburg during the Civil War. Question 1 asks students to evaluate whether the source provides sufficient evidence to demonstrate the morale of the entire Union Army. To answer this question, students must source the document to determine whether the author represents all Union troops. Question 2 asks students to evaluate whether additional documents would corroborate the letter. 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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Morocco - USA One Day in the Life Project Exchange In this task, students will make cross cultural comparisons with other students whom they have been speaking to through multiple forms. This task includes: |
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Mrs. Trimble's Muffins In Mrs. Trimble's Muffins students will analyze nutrient groups on a nutritional label for positive and negative nutritional value and describe why people should either limit or include them in their diet; using the food pyramid, identify foods that make a balanced meal and explain how the chosen foods can benefit the human body. This task includes:
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Multiple Solutions In this task, students will examine equations with multiple solutions and determine possible solutions. This task includes: |
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Multiplying Cells In this task, students must determine how many cells will be present at a given time by examining multiplication rates. This task includes: |
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Music of the World In this task, students will collaborate in creating an original song using instruments from around the world. Each age group will have a specific task in creating the song as a whole student body. This task includes: |
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