Performance Tasks

During this classroom performance assessment, students will have an opportunity to think carefully about the idea of a “hero’s journey.” They will be asked to think and write about the possibility and the nature of heroism in the contemporary world as they focus on a selection of short fiction...

Students will work independently to design a theme park and determine a variety of measurements using both algebra and geometric skills.

They will construct viable arguments concerning their design of a theme park and model with mathematics while using appropriate tools strategically....

Students will write an essay that uses evidence from primary sources and their own background knowledge to make an argument and answer the following prompt:

The Gulf of Tonkin Incident was the reason the U.S. fought the War in Vietnam. Do you agree with this explanation of the cause...

In this task, students will demonstrate their ability to describe and interpret plotted climate data to explain the reasons for differences in climate among four different United States cities: Seattle, Washington; San Francisco, California; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Las Vegas, Nevada. The...

Students will select two images that represent examples of weathering, erosion, or plate tectonics anywhere in the world, and use evidence from these features to model and provide a written explanation of their formation through a comic book. 

This task was originally written as a Grade 7 Science, Technology and Society (STS) performance assessment. The STS Expository Essay task was developed to address current science education standards that encourage teachers to teach students how to use the Internet to locate reliable information...