Example Technology Performance Assessment Task

Task # 1	A Poster
Grade	5
Content Area(s) Integrated	Visual Arts
Unit Title/Theme	Composition and Design
Task Developer/Author	Mary Lou Massucco

1. Setting the Context

This task of creating a poster will be completed as a culminating activity for a unit of study on the personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use of technology.

In Language Arts classes, students have had opportunities in researching social and ethical use of technology. In art class students have had experience with the elements of art and principals of design.

2. Grade Expectations

Technology

IT1 - Basic Operations & Concepts

• Right clicking [Windows] or clicking, holding, and dragging [Mac/Windows] presents a contextual menu.(e.g., right clicking on an image offers a menu of choices about what you want to do with the image), control/command, escape keys

• Launching a program by locating it on the internal, external, or network drive.

• Navigating between open windows and applications.

• Opening documents from and saving documents to nested folders

• Creating, naming, and renaming folders.

• Creating folders within folders (nested folders).

• Copying and moving files and folders.

• Cutting, copying, and pasting within a document, across documents, and across applications.

IT2 - Social, Ethical & Human Issues

• Describing personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use.

IT3 - Productivity Tools

• Adding non-textual elements (e.g., arrows, lines, shapes, etc.).

• Using spell check, and thesaurus.

Content

Visual Arts Skill Development

A5-6:10

Students show skill development when CREATING art

by…

· Using drawing techniques including gesture, contour,

shading and texture.

· Using various art tools and materials for specific purposes.

· Purposefully applying elements of 2D and 3D design

(e.g., 2D—applying color theory through the use of the

color wheel including shades, tints, analogous and complementary

colors; identifying and using form and texture;

creating implied form and texture with value and

lines; 3D—surface pattern on a clay vessel).

A5-6:11

Students demonstrate PERFORM/COMMUNICATE skills

in visual arts by…

· Working with teacher to select a piece of art work for a

public exhibition.

· Demonstrating personal point of view on a common

theme in their own work.

3. The Performance Task

Language Arts classes have been researching social and ethical issues of using technology. Students have been using basic technology operations to find and collect information from the Internet. Students need to present their information in a visual way to promote their message of appropriate use and practice. Designing a poster will allow expression of opinions yet limit students to address the most important issues in a limited space.

Goal: Design a poster with text and graphics using appropriate technology and good design.

Role: The student will become a graphic designer and incorporate the elements and principals of design in their composition.

Audience: Students are demonstrating their knowledge and personal opinions to their peers and the local community.

Situation: The local bookstore/Internet café has asked for a student art display to fill their front window. The proprietor has expressed an interest in having more programs for kids but is concerned about the ethical issues involved with Internet use. She would love some direction from the local schools who are addressing the issues as part of the curriculum and state standards. With some advance planning the Language Arts teachers and the Art teacher were able to integrate their goals to have students create posters to display appropriate use of technology.

Product/Performance: A Poster

4. Activities

Students will be given the task of creating a poster to display information in a visual way to promote the appropriate use and practice of technology. A part of this must include students describing personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use. As an integrated unit students will research and save information in a folder in Language Arts class. Basic technology operations will aide students in the collection of information and saving notes.

In Art class students will examine layouts and will practice creating their own template for the poster. Students will use line, color, shape and texture to create a 2-D composition that will show emphasis, balance, repetition, and rhythm. Teacher demonstration, student examples and art video will demonstrate how to use the elements of art in a pleasing composition.

Students draw layouts to be referenced later for the digital poster. Attention to text and images need to be considered.

Original drawings will be used as images to enhance the text:

· Students use a variety of drawing techniques such as gesture, contour, shading and texture.

· Students select tools appropriate to the illustrations.

· Students will conference with the teacher to select the best images to enhance the text.

Using a digital camera students capture their illustration and download to the computer for further digital manipulation.

· Using ideas from their practice layouts students will create a digital layout. Images and text will be imported and formatted. Text will be spell checked and the use of a thesaurus will be incorporated into the final editing.

Students demonstrate personal point of view on a common theme in their own work through their own selection of images, text, and style of composition in their poster.

5. Materials and Resources

Drawing paper

Tools for drawing and applying color

Picture files for reference

Computers

Digital Cameras

Printers

Software

Video on Design and Composition

Poster examples showing good and poor design

Font Styles

6. Criteria/Rubric

Grade Expectation	Introduced	With Assistance	Met the Standard
Basic Operations
Right clicking [Windows] or clicking, holding, and dragging [Mac/Windows] presents a contextual menu.(e.g., right clicking on an image offers a menu of choices about what you want to do with the image), control/command, escape keys
Launching a program by locating it on the internal, external, or network drive.
Navigating between open windows and applications.
Opening documents from and saving documents to nested folders
Creating, naming, and renaming folders.
Creating folders within folders (nested folders).
Copying and moving files and folders.
Cutting, copying, and pasting within a document, across documents, and across applications.
Social, Ethical & Human Issues
Describing personal and interpersonal consequences of inappropriate use.
Productivity Tools
Adding non-textual elements (e.g., arrows, lines, shapes, etc.).
Using spell check, and thesaurus.
Communication
Not Assessed
Research, Problem Solving & Decision Making
Not Assessed
Visual Arts
Using drawing techniques including gesture, contour, shading and texture.
Using various art tools and materials for specific purposes.
Purposefully applying elements of 2D and 3D design
Demonstrating personal point of view on a common theme in their own work.

7. Checklist

None