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A Gardener's Dilemma In this task, students will design a garden plot for a family. This task includes: |
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A Job Designed Just for You In this task, students will work in groups to put together and present an advertising portfolio for job applications. This task includes: |
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A Mountain of Trails In this task, students will enter a contest and design a mountain bike trail. This task includes: |
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A Stitch in Time In this task, students will work in groups to create various artifacts for a community's heritage museum and come up with a presentation to help fundraise. This task includes: |
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Architectural Planning with Pythagoras In this task, students will pretend they have been marooned on an island and explore ways they would create a shelter that worked with the environment. This task includes: |
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Are You Business Savvy? In this task, students will work in groups to "manage" a section of the classroom grocery store. They will need to collaborate on reducing costs, picking supplies, and making the most profit. This task includes: |
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As Easy As One, Two, Negative Three In this task, students will create a video that presents a children's narrative on how to add and subtract integers. This task includes: |
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BTW IDK Y talking w/ my BFF costs 2 much In this task, students will collect information to be used in a new data plan for texting. This task includes: |
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Caching In In this task, students will create a prototype course for Geo-Cache. This task includes: |
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California, Here We Come! In this task, students will calculate the time and mileage to fly between cities. This task includes: |
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