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Bird's Nest In this task, students will examine a graph to determine a relationship between the length and width of bird's eggs. 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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Caption Me In this task, students will write captions for fur textiles from the 18th century. 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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Circle Pattern In this task. students will examine the ratios of inscribed circles of different colors. This task includes: |
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Circles and Squares This task requires students to determine ratios between measurements of multiple inscribed squares and circles. This task includes: |
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Circles in Triangles In this task, students must calculate the radius of various inscribes circles. This task includes: |
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Classification in Action In this task, students will set up qualitative and quantitative classification systems. This task includes: |
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Concepts of Health and Fitness In Concepts of Health and Fitness students will respond to multiple choice, short answer, and critical thinking questions related to health and fitness. This task includes:
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Connections to the Philippine-American War This task assesses students' historical knowledge in a way that transcends the rote recall of facts by asking students to draw on their knowledge of the past to construct an argument about how two events are connected. Question 1 asks students to connect the explosion of the USS Maine to the imprisonment of Filipinos by the American military in 1901. Question 2 asks students how the popularity of Social Darwinism in the US is likewise connected to the imprisonment of Filipinos in 1901. 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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