Performance Tasks

This is a summative assessment for a unit on weathering and erosion.

Students will explore, reflect and develop their ideas about themselves and their community to create art that represents their understandings and findings. Performance tasks include: expressive works about core values and emotions, community landscapes, and a thematic community collage. End...

This lesson unit is intended to help students to:

• Add and subtract directed numbers (positive, negative and zero) with understanding.
• Address common misconceptions about the addition and subtraction of directed numbers.
• Explain their reasoning using diagrams.

This task asks students to decide which decorations and snacks to buy for the class party.

The students will assume the roles of workers for the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration and will create an exhibit about the Great Depression for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library. Students will choose the best objects to put in the museum exhibit. Objects are to...

In this performance assessment, students role-play a character who is seeking to immigrate to the New World during colonial times. Students will each create a decision-making model determining where they would like to settle in the New World: New England, Mid-Atlantic, or the South. They will...