Example Technology Performance
Assessment Task
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Task #1 |
Create a poster using a visual organizer and paint program |
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Grade: |
2 |
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Content Area (s): |
Science |
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Unit Title/Theme: |
Plant Growth Stages |
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Task Developer/Author: |
Lauren Baker |
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Setting the Context
The general context is a
Life Science unit covering life cycles and ecosystems. The students will have a hands on activity of
planting and observing seeds grow over a two week period.
2. Grade Expectations
Technology
IT1-2:3 Students use technology/ productivity tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote
creativity by…
Word Processing
IT 1-2 :3 Students use technology/ productivity tools to enhance learning, increase productivity, and promote creativity by…
Paint/Draw
Note: It is suggested you look specifically at students’ ability to effectively use common paint tools such as the line, oval, rectangle, paint brush, text, selection, spray can/air brush, and eraser.
Visual Organizer
Note: Students should
demonstrate their ability to add text, change symbols (block to oval, etc.),
change color of symbol backgrounds, increase/decrease font sizes, add symbols,
add connecting lines to symbols, and manipulate connecting lines between
symbols.
Content
S1-2:31
Students demonstrate their understanding of
Reproduction by…
S1-2:34
3. The Performance Task
Students will
demonstrate their understanding of the stages of growth of a plant through use
of a visual organizer and paint program.
Goal(s): Create an electronic poster demonstrating the stages of development of a plant and conditions for successful growth.
Role: The students will be the scientists,
planting, caring and observing their seeds and documenting their findings.
Audience: Students will share their electronic
posters with their findings with the class and the teacher. Optionally the
teacher could assemble all of them into a slide show or post on a web site.
Situation: The students have received an urgent message from the President asking for help in determining how astronauts could grow their own food in space. The students will learn what is needed for a plant to grow and the stages of growth so they can let the president know through a poster presentation what the astronauts will need to grow their own food. They will then plant two seeds – one to grow with normal conditions and one without an essential condition.
Product/Performance: An electronic poster created with a
Visual Organizer and Paint Program.
4. Activities
Preparation for Task:
Students will have planted two seeds in separate pots. One planting would be a control placed in a sunny place, watered etc.. The second planting would be deprived of one thing surmised to be essential for example light or water. Students will observe daily for 10 days the growth of both and record their findings with hand sketches in a journal or worksheet format provided by the teacher. Teacher should provide small paper rulers for measuring height.
Teacher will need to prepare a visual organizer template that includes graphics and text elements that the students can arrange, edit and connect to demonstrate an understanding of the growth stages (include at least 4).
Assessment Task 1:
Students access teacher created template and arrange and edit items to show the order of stages of the plant’s growth, using their growth journals or worksheets as a reference. They should edit the label text, (change font color, size) to identify the stage or necessary condition. They should connect the items to show the proper sequence of the growth sequence.
Assessment Task 2:
After students have completed subtask #1 they can then use a paint program to develop their own drawings of the stages (at least 4), in order and label each with text.
5. Materials and Resources
Seeds, pots, dirt – enough for 2 per student
Journal or worksheet provided by teacher to record daily growth observations
Small paper rulers for students
Visual organizer and teacher created template
Paint Program
Projector and screen
Web site (optional)
6. Criteria/Rubric
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Description of the plant's life cycle
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Excellent: Visual representations demonstrate a clear understanding
of the changes that take place in the seed during germination, the young plant
that bears seed leaves, the more
mature plant that flowers and mature
plant that produces seeds. |
Adequate: Visual representations demonstrate an understanding of the
stages that a plant goes through, germination, growth, flowering, and seed
production. |
Basic:
Visual representations demonstrate some understanding that the life cycle
starts with a seed and ends with a seed. Other stages may be vague.
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Inadequate: Some misconceptions evident in the visual
representations such as some inappropriate stages of the plant may be shown.
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Did not try
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Identification of conditions needed for plant growth
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Visual
representations include all necessary conditions clearly labeled. |
Visual
representations include most conditions with labels. |
Visual representations include some
conditions but may not be labeled.
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Conditions are not identified or are
incorrect.
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Did not try.
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Grade Expectation |
Introduced |
With Assistance |
Met the Standard |
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Basic Operations |
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Social, Ethical & Human Issues |
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Assessed |
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Productivity Tools |
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Entering, selecting, deleting text |
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Manipulating
styles
(e.g., bold face, italicize and underline). |
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Illustrating a simple
concept using a paint application. Note: It is
suggested you look specifically at students’ ability to effectively use
common paint tools such as the line, oval, rectangle, paint brush, text,
selection, spray can/air brush, and eraser. |
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Entering information into
a teacher created template (e.g. concept map). Note: Students should
demonstrate their ability to add text, change symbols (block to oval, etc.), change
color of symbol backgrounds, increase/decrease font sizes, add symbols, add
connecting lines to symbols, and manipulate connecting lines between symbols. |
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Communication |
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Not Assessed |
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Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making |
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Not Assessed |
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7. Checklist
1. Seeds planted and observations taken for 10 days
2. Visual Organizer template completed
3. Paint ‘poster” completed and ready to share