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Shakespeare: The Inventor of Modern Man In this task, students will explore the claim that Shakespeare is the inventor of modern man by looking at the impact of his work through time. This task includes: |
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Shock and Awe: Projectile Motion in the Crusades In this task, students will take place in a four week project that will ask them to practice math, write research papers, and develop flash movies relating to the Crusades. This task includes: |
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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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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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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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Soiled Again In this task, students will initially work with a lab partner to design and conduct an experiment that determines which earth material(s) would produce the least acidic "acid rain". They will independently write a report. This task includes: |
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Sorting Functions In this task, students are asked to match corresponding graphs, equations, tables, and rules. This task includes: |
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