Grades 5-8 Performance Task
Contributed by: Council of Chief State School
Officers (CCSSO)
Students study a table containing population
data covering a 28 year period for snowshoe hare
and lynx in a certain area of Canada. The students
are asked to create a graph of the data to facilitate
accurate analysis, then to use the research data
to write a brief response to a proposal to reduce
the lynx population.
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