Performance Tasks

"What does it take to be a successful entrepreneur?" The Mini-Economy Portfolio Assessment uses this compelling question to engage students in an ongoing inquiry project. Each activity is an assessment task, which use students' knowledge of standards to pursue a coherent project goal: the...

Students collect data on their classmates’ economic wants. They also investigate how they can make goods and services that address those wants, and use a decision-maing model to decide what their group should produce.

This task is for use in the context of a classroom Mini-Economy, in which students create their own businesses. Resources for starting this project can be found at www.vaminieconomy.org.

Students brainstorm and list all the productive resources—...

This task is for use in the context of a classroom Mini-Economy, in which students create their own businesses. Resources for starting this project can be found at www.vaminieconomy.org.

In this task, students conduct a simulation/experiment in...

Students use skills aligned to grade 6 statistics standards in order to persuade a city council to add an additional bus line.

Students use skills aligned with grade 6 ratio and proportion standards to plan a day in Golden Gate Park. Students have opportunity to collaborate during the group preview section and work individually aftewards.