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Curriculum Embedded Task
Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
Kim Steinman
Nicole Rieker
3
Average: 3 (2 votes)
History / Social Studies
5
Elementary (K-5)

Throughout history, explorers have made discoveries that changed the way people viewed the world. In their quest for knowledge and fame, these pioneers have achieved great things for themselves and their countries. But, there is a fine line between good and evil. Could the world's greatest...

NFL Ready

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Curriculum Embedded Task
Educational Policy Improvement Center (EPIC)
5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
Science
Physics
11, 12
High (9-12)

Students gather real-world data and then analyze the data using kinematics equations.

Students need to review video footage of a selected college quarterback and NFL quarterback. Students evaluate this data to determine how far the ball is thrown. Students make approximations of the...

Cooling Project

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Curriculum Embedded Task
Summit Public Schools
Hai Tran
0
No votes yet
Mathematics
Algebra 2
9, 10, 11, 12
High (9-12)

This task uses a new product, Joulies, which claims to help keep hot drinks hot longer. Students will study the change in temperature of an object as it cools and model its temperature as a function of time and use their knowledge of Algebra 2 in order to build a mathematical model of a cooling...

Curriculum Embedded Task
Summit Public Schools
0
No votes yet
Science
Biology
9, 10
High (9-12)

For this task students will play the role of a journalist researching and presenting a recent discovery in science. Students are asked to research current events in science and critique and challenge the evidence and arguments of the discovery in order to contribute to the body of scientific...

Curriculum Embedded Task
Center for Collaborative Education (CCE)
Aimee Gibbons
Jeanne Sturges
Adam Theriault
0
No votes yet
English / Language Arts
World Literature
11
High (9-12)

This is an analytical essay that follows the reading of Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress. The assessment will answer the following essential question: What did it mean to “come of age” during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and how does that compare to coming of age today?  ...

Economic Systems

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Curriculum Embedded Task
Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
Kathy Thiebes
0
No votes yet
History / Social Studies
Economics
11, 12
High (9-12)

Every society operates with a mixed economic system, combining the influences of market and command models in order to form a functioning economy and government. Individual countries have unique economic systems that are each defined by how they prioritize different economic goals.

Before...