Performance Tasks

This task provides students with an opportunity to perform guided scientific inquiry.

Students will work with a partner or group to design and conduct an experiment to determine if a detergent containing enzymes is more effective than a detergent that does not contain enzymes in removing...

In this project, students will use calculus to optimize a product or design. They will have to carefully characterize the variables and constraints of their system to form an equation to be optimized, and then take the derivative to find the maximum or minimum of that function. They must include...

In this task, students will write an estimate for a potential client who is interested in installing solar energy panels. They will provide figures on the initial purchase of the solar energy panels along with the charge per kilowatt-hour. They also will estimate when the potential client will...

Student teams will research and define the terms “efficiency” and “energy efficient.” Based on their research, teams will design and build a vehicle. Then they will experimentally test the vehicle’s efficiency.

After analyzing the initial data of the vehicle’s performance, teams will re-...

Students give a persuasive lecture to peers on how a complex poem creates a unique, specific, and identifiable experience for the reader. 

In this task, students will design, build, and evaluate a model house that demonstrates their mastery of electric circuits.