Example Technology Performance Assessment Task

 

Task #1

Multimedia Presentation

Grade Level

3

Content Area(s)

History and Social Studies

Unit Title/Theme

Native American Studies

Task Developer/Author

Ceil Hunt

 

 

1.                 Setting the Context

 

The study of Native American cultures is a six-week unit covering the cultures from four different geographical regions of the United States.  Students use a variety of different resources (fiction and non-fiction) to study the people of these regions.  One of the areas studied is natural resources and how the Native Americans used these resources to meet their basic needs.

 

 

 

2. Grade Expectations

 

IT1 – Launching a program from the desktop

IT4 – Creating a slide presentation including title slide, graphics, text, voice, sound related to topic and documentation of sources.

IT5 –

  • Using multiple resources including:
    • Library catalog
    • Electronic resources
    • Internet web pages
  • Navigating to various websites by typing a URL into a browser or using a list of links identified by the teacher.
  • Navigating using forward, back, home, and refresh.
  • Using hyperlinks to navigate the world wide web.

 

H&SS3-4:12

Students show understanding of human interactions with the environment over time by describing how patterns of human activities (for example: housing, transportation, food consumption or employment) relate to natural resource distribution (eg. How population concentrations in Vermont developed around fertile lowlands, French/English/Indian conflict for furs in Northern Vermont.

 

H&SS3-4:5 Students develop reasonable explanations that support the research statement by…

  • Organizing and displaying information in a manner appropriate to the research statement through tables, graphs, maps, dioramas, charts, narratives, and/or posters
  • Classifying information and justifying groupings based upon observations, prior knowledge, and/or research
  • Using appropriate methods for interpreting information such as comparing and contrasting.



3. The Performance Task

 

Students will research Native American cultures and then analyze the information they collect to compare and contrast two different populations.

Goal(s): Students will create a multimedia presentation comparing and contrasting two different Native American populations. Students will focus their attention on the types of natural resources available and how they used them to meet their basic needs (food, shelter, and clothing).

Role: Researcher and analyst

 

Audience: Instructor and peers

Situation: The students have just won a contest and will be starring in a documentary on Native American cultures. They will be portraying Native Americans from two different regions, the Northeast Woodlands and the Plains.  They will need to start researching for their roles.  Since they don’t know which culture they will be assigned to, they must learn about both.  They will be comparing and contrasting each region and asked to put themselves into the role of one of the First Americans who lived in these regions early in our history. 

Product/Performance: Multimedia Presentation

 

4. Activities

Activity #1: Students will access the computer and launch a web browser.  Students will visit the predetermined sites provided by the instructor.  Using the the table below, students will enter information about the Eastern Woodlands and Plains Native American cultures to use for making comparisons. 

 

 

Eastern Woodlands

Plains

Natural Resources

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Food

 

 

 

 

 

 

Shelter

 

 

 

 

 

 

Clothing

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jobs

 

  • Men

 

  • Women

 

  • Children

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Special Religious or Cultural Ceremonies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Travel

 

 

 

 

 

Activity #2: Students will be given the storyboard handout below.  Teacher will discuss the importance of planning the multimedia presentation.  The teacher can model the process.

 

 Student’s Storyboard Planner               

Over the course of the next week, we will be working on making a multimedia presentation using
Power Point.  In order for you to start this process, this planning sheet must be finished and turned in by
                                                       .

Project Requirements

Minimum of six (8) slides including a title page                                                                                    

Minimum of one (1) web resource provided

Minimum of two reference books

Minimum of three (3) graphics, either scanned or inserted from Office online clip art

 

The web site(s) I used are :                                                                                                                     

The two books I used are: (don’t forget to include full title and the author)

 

 

 

I have at least three graphic images for my presention.

What related sounds will you be adding to your presentation?

I will be making a total of ­­­­­­______ slides.

 

 

Complete a rough sketch of how you would like to lay out your presentation.  Please attach any
sketches you will need scanned into your presentation.  You may want to draw in where you
want to put any graphics you want to use.

 

 

 

 

 
 
Complete a rough sketch of how you would like to lay out your presentation.  Please attach any sketches you will need scanned into your presentation.  You may want to draw in where you want to put any graphics you want to use.  Use the lines beside each slide to write down your information. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Activity #3

Students will receive the requirements for their multimedia presentation. (The handout is found below.)  They will be given the time (45-60 minutes)  to use their storyboard planner to develop their presentation.   

5. Materials and Resources

List the resources or materials that are needed in order to complete this task. Include how students will use technology to enhance their learning (i.e., uses a digital camera, emails an expert, uses the Internet to locate and validate information, uses instructional software, uses graphic organizer software, etc.).

Computer with Internet access and library of books on the different Native American cultures
Multimedia presentation software
Graphic organizer and assignment sheets for each student

6. Criteria/Rubric

List the Criteria/Rubric you will use to determine successful completion of the task. Include Content and Technology. (Note:  The technology rubric can be copied from the Instructional Guides.)

 

Grade Expectation

Introduced

With Assistance

Met the Standard

Basic Operations

Launching a program from the desktop

 

 

 

Communication

Creating a slide presentation including title slide, graphics, text, voice, sound related to topic and documentation of sources.

 

 

 

Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making

Using multiple resources including:

·         Library catalog

·         Electronic resources

·         Internet web pages

 

 

 

Navigating to various websites by typing a URL into a browser or using a list of links identified by the teacher.

 

 

 

Navigating using forward, back, home, and refresh.

 

 

 

Using hyperlinks to navigate the world wide web.

 

 

 

 

 

 Content Rubric

 

Exceeds the standard

Meets the Standard

Did not meet the standard

Organizes and displays information appropriate to the research through use of chart

Chart is completely and correctly filled in

Chart is filled in with over 75% of the information correct

Student does not fill in chart completely or correctly

Classify information using research

Able to identify different cultures by a variety of different factors using research

 

Not able to classify different cultures by natural resources or other identifiers

Uses appropriate methods for interpreting – can compare and contrast

Able to accurately compare and contrast in all factors listed

Able to compare and contrast the different cultures using several indicators

Can not compare or contrast the two cultures

Student understands how human activities relate to natural resource distribution

Students are able to see the relationship of natural resources

 

Student does not understand how natural resource distribution determined how cultures met their basic needs

 

7. Checklist

Project Requirements

Minimum of six (8) slides including a title page                                                                                      

Minimum of one (1) web resource provided

Minimum of two reference books

Minimum of three (3) graphics, either scanned or inserted from Office online clip art

      The web site(s) I used are: List name of site, author, the URL, and the date you accessed the site. 

      1.

      2.

      The two books I used are: (don’t forget to include full title and the author)

      I have at least three graphic images for my presention. Remember graphics come only from our own clip art program or must be drawn by you. 
1.

      2.

      3.

What related sounds will you be adding to your presentation?

I will be making a total of ­­­­­­______ slides.

Multimedia presentation checklist

Criteria

Yes

No

Completed storyboard

 

 

Minimum of 8 slides including title page

 

 

1 web source cited

 

 

2 reference books cited

 

 

3 graphics related to text

 

 

Voice or appropriately related sound