Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 4 |
People Interacting with the Environment
In this task, students must examine how people and animals live in various environments and use their knowledge in additional situations.
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 Washington State Classroom- Based Assessments
Subject Economics, Geography, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level 4 |
People on the Move
In this task students will will choose a group of people and describe how their needs and wants (economic reasons) and location (geography) caused them to move. You will also create a map illustrating this movement. They will then construct a map and write a paper or make a presentation.
This task includes:
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 4 |
Rising Waters
In this task, students must make a connection between weight and water displacement by recording observations and apply their understandings to alternate situations.
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 Bowland Maths (UK)
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Rods and Triangles
In this task, students must calculate how many and what kinds of triangles are possible to make out of various sizes of rods.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Progression Guide
4. Scored Student Work
5. PowerPoint of Task
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 4 |
Run For Your Life
In this task, students must draw the footprints of a predatory chase between two animals after reading a discription of the events.
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 Bowland Maths (UK)
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Security Camera
In this task, students must decide on the most optimum location in a store to put a security camera.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Progression Guide
4. Scored Student Work
5. PowerPoint of Task
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Source High Tech High School
Subject Biology, Humanities, Interdisciplinary
Grade Level K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 |
Seedfolks
In this task, students will work together to plant seeds of positive societal ideas around the school and write poems about how they will continue to grow together.
This task includes:
1. Task Decription
2. Student Work: 2 examples
3. Additional Materials: Student reflections, 5 teacher resources, teacher reflections, learning goals, content topics, required materials, timeline
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Source Bowland Maths (UK)
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 4, 5, 6, 7 |
Speedy Santa
In this task, students must calculate the amount of time Santa can spend at each house in order to get to each house in the UK.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Progression Guide
4. Scored Student Work
5. PowerPoint of Task
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Source The Math Forum at Drexel
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 3, 4, 5 |
Sports Weigh In
Sports Weigh In involves logical reasoning to determine how much each kind of ball weighs. The arithmetic requirements are minimal: doubling, halving, and subtracting of relatively small numbers.
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Math (PALM), Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 4 |
Swingers
This task (in PALM and in PALS) focuses on the Position and Motion of Objects. Students must epapnd on the previous task and experiment to determine why pendulums swing at different speeds throughout their course.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
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