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Whose Rules In this task students will make an informed decision on a public issue after researching and discussing different perspectives on this issue. They will then write a paper or make a presentation. This task includes: |
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Whose Side is Your God On? In this task, students will explore the relationships between religion and major events throughout history. This task includes: |
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Whose Work Is it? The Issue of Plagiarism In this task, students will create a multimedia presentation to give to the class on plagiarism. This task includes: |
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Why Does Ms. Costa Have Worms? In this task, students will explore the concepts of composting and vermicomposting through inquiry based learning. They will then collaborate as a class to create worm bins for the school to begin composting lunches. This task includes: |
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Why History? In this task students will develop a position on how the knowledge of history helps them understand a current issue by analyzing historical events related to that issue. They will then write a paper or make a presentation. This task includes: |
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Why Play? The Why Play? task allows students to demonstrate their understanding of staying healthy. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a picture montage. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments |
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Why Warm Up? In Why Warm Up? students will learn and perform a warm-up series and then explain the purpose of several of the exercises. This task includes:
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Wig-Wag In this task, students will investigate how different weights effect a wig-wag apparatus. This task includes: |
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Will I Stay or Will I Leave? In this task, students will act as city planners and gather information to create a presentation on how to address future career growth. This task includes: |
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Win Win In the Win Win task, students will watch a video and discuss what people would need to do to be really good at an activity or sport. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. The resource required for this task is a video. This task is a part of the Personal Health and Physical Development task series from 1998 by NEMP. |
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