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Curriculum Embedded Task
New Hampshire Task Bank
Marge Pagliuca
Kyle Plante
0
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Science
Physics
9
High (9-12)

This accident reconstruction report asks students to use data supplied to analyze and make an informed decision on whether a guardrail company or the driver was at fault when a car crashed through the guardrail.

Curriculum Embedded Task
New Hampshire Task Bank
Robert Rotier
Nathan Carle
5
Average: 5 (1 vote)
Science
Physics
9, 10, 11, 12
High (9-12)

Students are tasked with designing a complex circuit that incorporates at least five different electrical devices. All devices must be run using a 15 volt DC power supply, but must operate at design voltages between 2 to 15 volts. This requires the use of resistors in the circuit.

Curriculum Embedded Task
CCSSO/SCASS, CAPT, KDE, RAND, APU, OSED
0
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Science
Earth Science
9, 10, 11, 12
High (9-12)

Students collect data on the cooling of water in two different test tubes- one wrapped in wet newspaper and one in dry newspaper. They then identify trends in their data, make predictions, and describe how their experiment is similar to the evaporation rates in the Earth’s Atmosphere.

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Curriculum Embedded Task
Betsy Wallisch
Vince Tom
Kim Theriault
0
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Science
Earth Science
9
High (9-12)

Students analyze (compare, contrast, infer, apply prior knowledge) and research both New England and another pre-selected world region on which to write an analysis paper. 

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Curriculum Embedded Task
New Hampshire Task Bank
Kathleen Burnell
Julia Ryan
0
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English / Language Arts
Honors English Language Arts
9
High (9-12)

Students will analyze multiple pivotal scenes across the novel, film, and play To Kill a Mockingbird in order to gain a deeper understanding of character motivations, traits, symbols, and plot devices. Students will form groups and complete a planning activity. Students complete...

Curriculum Embedded Task
Literacy Design Collaborative (LDC)
Chad Thomas
Dan Rau
0
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History / Social Studies
World History
6, 7, 8
Middle (6-8)

Throughout history, many military leaders have led conquests as a way to increase power and as a result have established an improved status in modern textbooks. Some of the most exceptional of these generals have been assigned the label of “great”. Historians often argue in comparing the...