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Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)

Subject

Grade Level
5, 6, 7, 8

San Diego/Tijuana Crossed Gazes

In this task, students will work the "model animation" in creating a short film about others kids' lives on the other side of the border.

This task includes: 
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Teacher reflections, student reflections

Source
Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM), Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)

Subject
Science, Mathematics, Interdisciplinary

Grade Level
5, 6, 7, 8

Scale Model of the Solar System

In This task (in PALM and in PALS), students must create a scale model of the solar system with the given table of planetary distances. 

This task includes: 
1. Task Description 
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info

Source
High Tech High School

Subject

Grade Level
5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

School Leadership Project: HTH Structures in Action

In this task, teachers will be learning how to structure their classes to implement problem based learning. 

This task includes:
1. Structures for Conversations
2. Critique
3. Classroom Management
4. Project Management
5. Entry Activities
6. Assessment

Source
iEARN Collaboration Centre

Subject
History/Social Studies

Grade Level
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

School Uniform Exchange

In the School Uniform Exchange, students will talk about their school uniform tokens, histories, inner cultures, and exchange school activities. This task allows for cultural exchange and communication among students from all over the world. It will help students realize the importance of their value and the spirit of their school, country, and share with others their inner exploration. This task includes several possible classroom activities.

Source
The Historical Thinking Project (Canada)

Subject
History/Social Studies

Grade Level
4, 5, 6, 7, 8

Schooling Then and Now

In this task, students will study primary documents in order to help them compare and contrast 19th century schooling to modern day.

This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Detailed lesson plan, handouts, worksheets

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

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

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

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.

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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