Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Seed Growth
In this task, students will explore how seed growth is effected by variables.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
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Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)
Subject Science
Grade Level 3, 7 |
Seed to Pine
The Seed to Pine task allows students to account for the growth of a pine tree of immense size and weight from a small seed. Students will complete this task working one on one with a teacher-administrator. Resources required for this task include a picture of a pine tree, a pine tree seed, and a pine cone.
This task is a part of the Living World task series from 1999. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Art, Interdisciplinary, History/Social Studies
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Self Exploration Through Yoga, Art, and Writing-Intersession
In this task, students will participate in daily yoga and read the book Esparanza Rising. They will then create a blog to aid as a reflection journal about all the activities they are taking place in.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Addiional Resources: Learning goals, content topics, required materials, timeline
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Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)
Subject Writing
Grade Level 3, 7 |
Sentences
The Sentences task allows students to demonstrate their ability to use punctuation and capital letters. Students will complete this task working in stations. The resource required for this task is a recording book.
This task is a part of the Writing Conventions task series from 2006. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Humanities
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Sesame Treat for Our Street
In this task, students will explore how writing can have a positive influence by working alongside fellow students of all ages in creating a puppet show that will teach about cross-cultural acceptance.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Learning goals, CA state standards, timeline
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Humanities
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 7 |
Sesame Treat for our Street
In this task, students will explore how writing can have a positive influence by working alongside fellow students and teachers in creating a puppet show that will teach about cross-cultural acceptance.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Learning goals, CA state standards, timeline
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seven Years' War
This task assesses whether students can source and contextualize a document. Students must first examine an 1870s image of French General Louis-Joseph de Montcalm and then determine which fact can help them evaluate the reliability of the drawing as evidence of what happened at Fort William Henry. Strong students will be able to explain how prevailing attitudes about Native Americans (Fact 1) could affect how an artist depicts the past.
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 Reading and Writing Project
Subject English Language Arts
Grade Level 7 |
Seventh Grade Standards 5 and 8
The Seventh Grade Standards 5 and 8 includes two tasks and use King George III. In Task 1, students will write an explanatory essay in which they analyze how the author has structured a specific passage and the effect of that structure on the reader. In Task 2, students will explaining the meaning of a phrase in context of the reading and explain how it connects to the central ideas of the passage.
This assessment includes a rubric.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Seville Quran
This task assesses students' knowledge of the time period of Muslim presence in Europe (1200’s)—but rather than measure rote recall of decontextualized facts, this assessment requires students to make connections across time and construct an argument about how events are connected.
Students with a strong understanding of the past will explain that the fact the featured source—the Quran—was made in Seville, points to the Islamic presence in the city in 1226. As an Islamic city in Iberia, it was the target of the Reconquista, which was raging at the time this Quran was completed. A strong response to the second question in this task might explain that in the 8th century, the Umayyad Caliphate expanded to Seville and beyond, establishing Islam as the dominant religion in Seville for centuries to come.
Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors.
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Source National Monitoring Study of Student Achievement (NMSSA, New Zealand)
Subject Science
Grade Level 7 |
Shadow Tales
The Shadow Tales task allows students to learn how to use shadows to tell time. Students will arrange pictures showing a flag poll and its shadow during different times of the day in order. Then they will match the correct time card with each picture. Students will complete this task working in stations. Resources required for this task include five pictures and five time cards.
This task is a part of the Planet Earth and Beyond World task series from 2007. This task is classified as a trend task by NEMP. Trend tasks are used to examine trends in student performance: whether they have improved, stayed constant or declined over the four-year period since the previous assessments.
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