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Cooling Colas In Cooling Colas, students predict how long it will take cola to cool down to the desired temperature. This task includes:
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Cubic Graph In this task, students will begin examining cubic equations. This task includes: |
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Daffodils and Tulips In this task, students around the world will plant either tulips of daffodils, record data, and compare when they bloom. This task includes: |
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Digital Citizenship In this task, students will explore the concept of Digital Citizenship and use activities to raise awareness on appropriate online behavior. This task includes: |
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Don't Waste - Create In this task, students will become more conscious about reserving resources through exploring agricultural processes and how to use all of the food product. This task includes: |
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Extending the Enneagon In Extending the Enneagon, students determine the meaure of an angle formed by extending two sides of an enneagon until they intersect. Elements of this problem are explored in Grade 7, when students “Use facts about supplementary, complementary, vertical, and adjacent angles in a multi- step problem to write and solve simple equations for an unknown angle in a figure.” Combining those concepts with properties of regular polygons is more likely tackled in high school. This task includes:
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Fearless Frames In this task, students are asked to calculate the dimensions of a prism frame being built using a predetermined amount of metal. This task includes: |
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Fishkill This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on The Living Environment. Students must analyze and graph a data table about the relationship between temperature and dissolved oxygen in order to determine the effects of thermal pollution on fish. This task includes: |
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Floor Pattern In this task, students will examine the properties of floor tiles. This task includes: |
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Functions In this task, students are given a set of points on a graph and asked to develop both a quadratic and linear function that transect all points on the graph. This task includes: |
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