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Building Functions In this task, students will label a graph with the given functions. This task includes: |
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Cafeteria Choices In Cafeteria Choices students will compare nutritional labels and identify positive and negative nutritional components; identify additional foods that would compensate for negative components and explain why. This task includes:
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Canada's Reaction to the Outbreak of War: 1914-2001 In this task, students will research Canada's reactions to various wars throughout the last couple centuries. This task includes: |
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Caption Me In this task, students will write captions for fur textiles from the 18th century. This task includes: |
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Car Wash In this task, students will determine where to build a car wash based on the soil in the area. This task includes: |
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Cardiovascular Homeostasis In this task, students will explore how homeostasis is effected by exercise. This task includes: |
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Catalase Enzyme In this task, students will design and cary out an experiment that will explore how to slow down reaction rates. This task includes: |
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Charity Fair In this task, students will use the rules of probability to discover options for making the charity games most profitable. This task includes: |
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China's Cultural Revolution This task assesses students' knowledge of the past—but rather than measure rote recall of decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected. Students with a strong sense of the past will be able to identify that the poster promotes Maoist teachings and explain that Mao Zedong rose to power during the Chinese Revolution. Strong students will also note that the utter failure of the Great Leap Forward diminished some of Mao’s power and reputation. They will elaborate that this failure contributed to Mao’s initiation of the Cultural Revolution in an attempt to eliminate critics and win back popular support. Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors. |
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Circle Pattern In this task. students will examine the ratios of inscribed circles of different colors. This task includes: |
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