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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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Superhero in the Making In this task, students will develop superhero characters based off of physics concepts and create comic/anime books based on their characters. This task includes: |
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Superstition Trading Cars In this task, students will discuss superstitions and create "playing cards" in photoshop depicting their newly invented superstitions. 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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Survival In this task, students will determine what material to make a jacket form that will keep the wearer alive in a particular climate. This task includes: |
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Swingers This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Position and Motion of Objects. Students must epapnd on the previous task and experiment to determine why pendulums swing at different speeds throughout their course. This task includes: |
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Swings This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Positition and Motion of Objects. Students must determine what variables will affect a swing. To aid in understanding the idea of a pendulum, students must then examine their observations and answer questions. This task includes: |
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T-shirt Sale In this task, students must determine price savings from a sale. This task includes: |
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Table Tiling In this task, students will calculate how many tiles will be needed to cover tables of varying sizes. This task includes: |
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