Performance Tasks

This Short Performance Assessment was designed to evaluate the following NGSS Performance Expectation (PE):

5-ESS3-1 Obtain and combine information about ways individual communities use science ideas to protect the earth's resources and environment.

This Short Performance Assessment was designed to evaluate the following NGSS Performance Expectation (PE). 

MS-ESS3-2 Analyze and interpret data on natural hazards to forecast future catastrophic events and inform the development of technologies to mitigate their effects.

This Short Performance Assessment was designed to evaluate the following NGSS Performance Expectation (PE). 

MS-­‐ESS2-­‐1. Develop a model to describe the cycling of Earth's materials and the flow of energy that drives this process.

This Short Performance Assessment was designed to evaluate the following NGSS Performance Expectation (PE):

MS-LS2-1: Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem

This Short Performance Assessment was designed to evaluate the following NGSS Performance Expectation (PE):

MS-PS4-1. Use mathematical representations to describe a simple model for waves that includes how the amplitude of a wave is related to the energy in a wave.

In this task, students find evidence for ways that plants and animals have changed the environment around their school. In groups, students begin exploring ways that the environment can be changed and practice documenting types of evidence of changes and why those changes were made by...