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Task with Student Directions
Contributed by: Assessment Performance Unit (APU)

You have been given five tubes labeled P, Q, R, S and T containing animals and a hand lens.

You can pick up each tube and turn it around.

a)  Look carefully at the animals in S and R. One animal is bigger than the other. Apart from this, write down four things that are different about them.

  1.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  2.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  3.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  4.   _______________________________________________________________________________

b)  Animal S is bigger than animal O. Apart from this, what is the main difference between the head of the animal in S and the head of Q?

  _______________________________________________________________________________

  _______________________________________________________________________________

  _______________________________________________________________________________

c)  Look carefully at P and T. Write down five ways in which these animals are alike.

  1.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  2.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  3.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  4.   _______________________________________________________________________________

  5.   _______________________________________________________________________________

 


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