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Fares not Fair In this task, students must calculate a fair fare increase. This task includes: |
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Fault Line In this task, students will use a cardboard model covered in sand to explore what happens with techtonic plates during an earthquake. This task includes: |
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Fish Dish In this task, students must determine the order a chef should cook his dishes and calculate the latest time he can start cooking to complete a dish on time. This task includes: |
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Floating and Sinking In this task, students will conduct an experiment to determine why bottles float in water. This task includes: |
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Formation of Rain In this task, students will design a model to repreasent the stages leading up to rain. This task includes: |
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Formation of Wind In this task, students will sequence and describe the steps leading up to wind. This task includes: |
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Friction In this task, students will examine friction by determining the amount of force necessary to push an object over various surfaces. This task includes: |
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Fruit Pies In this task, students must calculate the maximum pies possible out of the given amount of supplies. 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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Gas or Movie: Can I Afford It? In this task, students will explore the relationship between gas prices around the country and how people spend their money, presenting their findings in both an essay and multimedia presentation. This task includes: |
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