Career & technical ed.
Project Cost Estimate: Planning a Bookshelf Budget
Students plan the cuts for a bookshelf on paper, compare board-length options, and build a cost estimate with tax from a provided price list.
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Punnett Squares: Pea Plant Crosses
Students complete three monohybrid Punnett squares for pea plant height, read the genotype and phenotype results and predict offspring counts.
Career & technical ed.
Reading a Nutrition Facts Label: Do the Math
Students use a made-up nutrition label to multiply by servings, calculate calories from fat and percent daily value, and compare cost per bar.
Health & physical ed.
Reading Nutrition Labels: Compare Three Snacks
Students compare three provided nutrition labels, calculate whole-container totals and percent Daily Values, and choose a snack using evidence.
Science
Runoff, Algae and Fish: Reading a Lake Data Set
Students analyze a made-up five-year lake data set to link nutrient runoff to algae growth, low oxygen and fewer fish, then propose a follow-up investigation and a solution.
Science
Soil Layers and Soil Texture: What’s Under Our Feet
Students learn the layers of a soil profile, match each layer to its description, and analyze sample soil texture data to decide which soil drains fastest and holds the most water.
Science
Stoichiometry Basics: Using Mole Ratios from Balanced Equations
Students read mole ratios from balanced equations and use them to solve mole-to-mole, gram-to-gram, limiting reactant and percent yield problems.
Science
The Greenhouse Effect: How Heat Is Trapped
Students read a short factual passage on the greenhouse effect, put the steps in order, match gases to their sources, and do a percent-increase and temperature-conversion calculation.
Science
The Water Cycle: Follow the Water
Students read about the stages of the water cycle, complete vocabulary blanks, do simple percent calculations about where Earth’s water is and trace a raindrop’s path.
Communications & media
Yearbook Theme and Spread Planner
Students learn yearbook vocabulary, do a page-count budget for an invented 160-page book, and plan a theme and sketch a spread on paper.