Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 3 |
Interdisciplinary Task: Weather
This task is comprised of 18 activities and requires students to use skills in language arts, writing, reading, and science.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 8 |
Mapping the Blue Part
In this task, students will identify a list of characteristics on the ocean floor.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Ocean Bottom Profile
In this task, students will examine and interpret a map of the ocean floor.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
River Planning
In this task, students will simulate dam construction through an experiment and write about their observations.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Soiled Again
In this task, students will initially work with a lab partner to design and conduct an experiment that determines which earth material(s) would produce the least acidic "acid rain". They will independently write a report.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM), Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
The Blizzard of 1993
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Structure of the Earth System. Students must analyze a barograph from a winter storm in 1993.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 2 |
Up, Up, and Away
In this task, students will create a model of the water cycle after observing the phenomenon of evaporation.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Water Pollution
In this task, students will determine the pH of four samples of water and then neutralize them.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Water-holding capacity of Earth Materials
In this task, students will design and conduct an experiment to test the water holding capacity of various materials.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Wet-Dry Bulb Hygrometers
In this task, students will assemple a hygrometer and use other instruments to take measurements and calculate differences and averages.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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