Performance Tasks

Students will write an essay that uses evidence from primary sources and their own background knowledge to make an argument and answer an historical question:

Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. were responsible for the success of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Do you agree with this...

In this task, students will:

• Part 1: Gather background research on the 11 body systems
• Part 2: Select a virus and research the effect it has on each of the previously researched human systems
• Part 3: Create a comprehensive Public Service Announcement (PSA) for the
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This task demonstrates the importance of osmotic balance for cells to function properly, and what the consequences are when that balance is not met.

This task fits into the curriculum of basic cell biology. Students should engage in some initial discussion of diffusion and osmosis, and...

In this task, students observe, compare, and explain the continuous spectrum produced by incandescent lights and the line spectrum produced by fluorescent lights.

They also use a simple diffraction grating slide to record the wavelengths of the hydrogen emission lines in the visible...

In this task students will design and analyze an object made of regular shapes of their choosing. They will specifically analyze how changing the object's dimensions based on a set of self-created equations affects the properties of that object. They will then produce a poster to display their...

Prior to this module, students should read and take notes on Simon Wiesenthal's The Sunflower and come to class with a general answer to the question Wiesenthal poses at the end of his narrative, "What would you do?" It is not an expectation that they have read the symposium that...