Batteries and Bulbs - Home - Embedded Assessment #2

In this task, students will create multiple circuits to test various bulb brightnesses. 

This task includes:
1. Teacher Instructions
2. Student Notebook
3. Unit Outline
4. Scoring Forms

Batteries and Bulbs - Mystery Boxes

In this task, students will determine the electrical contents of six mystery boxes. This assessment is the final for the unit. 

This task includes:
1. Teacher Instructions
2. Student Notebook
3. Unit Outline
4. Scoring Form and instructions
5. Computer Simulation: instructions, example, and student notebook

Breadlines in the 1930's

This task assesses students' knowledge of the past—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 sense of the past will be able to explain, after analyzing a photograph of a long ‘breadline’ of unemployed Americans, that the Works Progress Administration was established as a federal response to the problem of American unemployment.  Students will also explain that the Wall Street Crash of 1929 precipitated the high unemployment rates in the 1930's, increasing the number of patrons at breadlines and soup kitchens.

Resources available for this task include downloadable PDF versions of both the assessment with source materials, as well as the Rubric containing benchmark descriptors.

CIVICS

The CIVICS task serves as a platform for young people to be actively involved in their communities. Groups of students will be guided to work around Millennium Development Goals focusing issues like environment, eradication of poverty, women education, education and literacy. Students will plan action projects and respond some of these issues through a process of reflection, dialogue and action. This task includes several possible classroom activities.