Source iEARN Collaboration Centre
Subject Art
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Photojournalism
The Photojournalism task is a digital media project supporting young people around the world to share images about issues and stories from their communities. In 2012 - 2013, the project focused on the theme of 'Images of Social Change.' In 2013 - 2014, the project is focusing on the theme of 'Heritage, Hunger, and Food Security.'
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Pickett's Charge
This task measures students’ ability to source a document. This assessment gauges whether students understand an important aspect of sourcing: the time elapsed between when a document was produced and the event that it depicts- and how reliability may be affected.
Students who understand the importance of when a document was produced will see that the painting is of little use to historians who wish to understand the immediate circumstances around Pickett's Charge because it was produced over 30 years after the event.
The task includes a range of supplementary materials, all accessible and available for download with the creation of a free account through the site:
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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 |
Pond-water Populations
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Balance of Populations in Ecosystems. Students must design and complete an experiment to show how variables affect the growth of organisms in an aquarium or pond setting.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Portrait of an Iroquois Leader
This task assesses whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine a painting of an Iroquois man by a British artist, then determine which facts can help them evaluate the painting's historical reliability. Strong students will be able to explain how the false impression that Hendrick was an emperor (Fact 1) and the alliance between the British and the Iroquois against the French (Fact 3) may have fostered the regal and flattering nature of the painting.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Post-Civil War South
This task assesses whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine an interview about the slaves freed from a plantation, then determine which facts can help them evaluate the interview's reliability. Strong students should be able to explain how the time elapsed between the interview and the events described (Fact 1) might affect the accuracy of his account. They should also be able to explain how Carter's family's allegiance to the Confederacy during the Civil War (Fact 2) could have influenced his perspective and affected the information he chose to include.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Powder
In this task, students will examine unidentified substances and propose uses for them.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. 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 |
Predator/Prey Relationship
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Populations of Ecosystems. Students must analyze given population data and write a paragraph demonstrating their underatandings, and then write a proposal to reduce one animal's population.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
President Grant and Horace Greeley
This assessment gauges students’ ability to source, contextualize, and corroborate a document. Students must consider how the contextual information about John Defrees's pamphlet on Grant's presidency affects its reliability as historical evidence. Then, students must identify other information that would help them further evaluate the reliability of the pamphlet.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment as well as the Rubric with benchmark descriptors.
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Source The Historical Thinking Project (Canada)
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Privateers
In this task, students will explore the differences of pirating and privateering as well as the morals surrounding it.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Learning log, detailed lesson plan, web resources, appendices 1-3
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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 |
Probing Under the Surface
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Structure of the Earth System. Students must measure and record various lengths in order to determine the shape of the bottom inside of a box.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
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