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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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Fitness Plan for Pat In Fitness Plan for Pat students will describe two areas of nutrition and physical activity that will improve body composition. This task includes:
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Fitness Planning In Fitness Planning students will evaluate their current fitness level for cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular endurance, and flexibility and determine whether a maintenance or improvement plan is most appropriate. They will demonstrate how maintenance or improvement plan will help achieve goal. 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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Flying High In Flying High, students try to figure out which of two airplanes is gaining altitude more quickly. A key to the problem is picking a good representation for the situation. This task includes:
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Friction Force In this task, students will explore friction force on an object. This task includes: |
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Fruit Boxes In this task, students are given box dimensions for a flat box and asked to calculate the largest volume possible. 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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Funsize Cans In this task, students must find suggestions for cylindrical measurements of soda cans that contain a predetermined volume but have the smallest surface area. Similar to Best Size Cans, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Gardner's Civil War Photography This task assesses students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a primary source from the Civil War era. Students are asked to consider how the content of two photographs by famous Civil War photographer Alexander Gardner could affect their reliability. Then, students must think of other information they would like to know about the circumstances surrounding the photographs in order to further evaluate their reliability. 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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