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Rising Waters In this task, students must make a connection between weight and water displacement by recording observations and apply their understandings to alternate situations. This task includes: |
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Rods and Triangles In this task, students must calculate how many and what kinds of triangles are possible to make out of various sizes of rods. This task includes: |
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Run For Your Life In this task, students must draw the footprints of a predatory chase between two animals after reading a discription of the events. This task includes: |
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Security Camera In this task, students must decide on the most optimum location in a store to put a security camera. This task includes: |
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Speedy Santa In this task, students must calculate the amount of time Santa can spend at each house in order to get to each house in the UK. This task includes: |
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Sports Weigh In Sports Weigh In involves logical reasoning to determine how much each kind of ball weighs. The arithmetic requirements are minimal: doubling, halving, and subtracting of relatively small numbers. This task includes:
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Swingers This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Position and Motion of Objects. Students must epapnd on the previous task and experiment to determine why pendulums swing at different speeds throughout their course. This task includes: |
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Swings This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Positition and Motion of Objects. Students must determine what variables will affect a swing. To aid in understanding the idea of a pendulum, students must then examine their observations and answer questions. This task includes: |
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Testing Foods In this task, students must explore the amounts of oil in various foods. This task includes: |
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The Food We Eat In this task, students will plan a days worth of meals after consulting and examining the food pyramid. This task includes: |
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