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Shop, Eat, Move In Shop, Eat, Move students will compare nutritional labels, identify positive and negative nutritional components, and identify additional foods that would compensate a healthy meal. This task includes:
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Sidewalk Patterns In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern. Similar to Sidewalk Stones, but with more guidance. This task includes: |
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Sidewalk Stones In this task, students will create an equation to determine the amount of each colored brick needed to create a specific sidewalk pattern. This task includes: |
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Signing of the Mayflower Compact This task measures students’ ability to source a document. When historians interpret a document, they first look to find out who wrote it and when. This information presents important clues about whether the document provides reliable evidence about the past. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced and the event that it depicts. Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that this painting offers limited evidence to historians who wish to understand the signing of the Mayflower Compact because it was produced over 200 years after the event. 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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Singing Grams In this task, students will collaborate on a music greeting to be performed at a local nursery home. This task includes: |
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Skeleton Tower In this task, students are required to create a formula for discovering how many cubes it takes to build structures of various sizes and shapes. This task includes: |
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Slave Quarters This task reveals students' ability to source a document, in order to see both its values and limitations. Students will be able to explain how a photograph of former slave quarters provides some evidence of the living conditions of slaves. They will also observe how the fact that the photograph was taken decades after the abolition of slavery limits its usefulness as evidence of antebellum living conditions. The task includes a range of supplementary materials, many available for download with the creation of a free account:
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Slippery Slope In Slippery Slope students graph the linear equation that passes through given points. They will then respond to questions about the graph. This task includes: |
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Snell's Law This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Transfer of Energy. Students must carry out an experiment to help them determine if Corn Syrup refraction meets Federal standards by using the Snell's Law equation. This task includes: |
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Soapy Water In this task, students will design and conduct an experiment that uses several substances to try to seperate soap from water. This task includes: |
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