Performance Tasks

A new student will be joining our class. This student has never been part of a classroom community.  While reading The Boxcar Children, we learned about Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny.  We learned what traits helped them become good community members.  Students will create a product that shows...

In partners, students will use their knowledge of numbers, counting and 2-D shapes to prepare and share trail mix.  They will draw a label for their mix that shows they understand the shapes of the ingredients (circle, square, rectangle, and triangle). They will compare the amounts of...

In this task, students will learn how to measure reaction time and then they will explore how various factors affect their individual reaction time as well as the reaction time of other students in class.

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Students will write a first person letter similar to the one Mary Mallon (Typhoid Mary) wrote to the Board of Health. Students will use both scientific evidence and personal opinion to convince the audience about their position regarding a contagious disease. They will research what happened...

In this task, students will demonstrate their understanding of the water cycle by considering the inputs and outputs of water as it moves through a watershed in New York state.  The students start with a simple model dominated by one input and one output. Students begin by calculating the volume...

In this task, students will play the role of a team hired to work for a non-profit environmental company, Invasion Free, to investigate an invasive species introduced locally. Students will learn about different types of invasive species and the distribution of these species in their local...