Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Wet-Dry Bulb Hygrometers
In this task, students will assemple a hygrometer and use other instruments to take measurements and calculate differences and averages.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source West Virginia Teach21 Project Based Learning
Subject English Language Arts
Grade Level 6 |
Where News Happens
In this task, students will use multimedia to investigate and present their research on public opinion of the news.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Standards, blog guideline, web resources, evaluations and rubrics, timeline, daily log, checklist
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Source Performance Assessment Links in Science (PALS)
Subject Science
Grade Level 5, 6, 7, 8 |
Where Rubber Meets Road
In this task, students will experiment with the amount of force needed to begin two blocks moving on a strip of asphalt.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Student Instructions
3. Scoring Rubric
4. Scored Student Work
5. Technical Quality Info
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Source West Virginia Teach21 Project Based Learning
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 6 |
Whose Park Is This? Designing a Youth Oriented Park
In this task, students will work in groups to come up with a park design, using geometry to be sure that the space is is being used most efficiently.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Standards, polygon chart, learning log, checklist, evaluations and rubrics, web resources, park map, guide to managing the process
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Source Washington State Classroom- Based Assessments
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6 |
Why History?
In this task students will develop a position on how the knowledge of history helps them understand a current issue by analyzing historical events related to that issue. They will then write a paper or make a presentation.
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Source Stanford Beyond the Bubble
Subject History/Social Studies
Grade Level 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 |
Women's Rights
This task assesses students' ability to contextualize two historical documents and place them in the correct chronological order.
This assessment draws on students' knowledge about changes in women’s rights over time . Document A is excerpted from Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique, published in 1963. Document B is from the trial of Susan B. Anthony, who voted illegally in the election of 1872. More than just the recall of facts and dates, students must show that they have a broad understanding of Students must show that they have a broad understanding of how women’s rights changed over time and demonstrate the ability to use knowledge about the past to place the two documents in context.
In this question, students who correctly contextualize the documents will see that Document B (an excerpt from the trial of Susan B. Anthony), which discusses the ban on women’s suffrage, was likely written before Document A (an excerpt from Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique), which describes discontent with post-World War II gender roles.
Resources include PDF downloads of the assessment, a link to primary source materials, and a 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 |
World War I Advertising
This task requires students to consider the relative strengths and weaknesses of a document as historical evidence. Students with a sophisticated understanding of how to source a document will be able to explain that the Kodak advertisement is useful in that it provides indirect information about the lives of soldiers and how they were able to communicate with family at the time. They will also point out that this image was created for the purposes of an advertisement, making it less useful as specific evidence of what life was like for U.S. soldiers.
Resources include PDF downloads of the assessment with source materials, and a 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 |
You Be the Author
In this task, students will explore what three events they would write into a textbook on the First World War and create an outline to be sent to the publisher.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Detailed lesson plan, handouts, rubric
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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 |
Your Birthday in History
In this task, students will research BC history and discover events that coincide with their birthdays. This will culminate in a Fair presentation.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Additional Resources: Detailed lesson plan, activity, fair exhibit guide, rubric
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Source Bowland Maths (UK)
Subject Mathematics
Grade Level 5, 6 |
Youth Hostel
In this task, students must come up with the best room assignments for a Youth Hostel.
This task includes:
1. Task Description
2. Teacher Instructions
3. Progression Guide
4. Scored Student Work
5. PowerPoint of Task
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