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Performance
Assessments
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- 5th Grade
Kindergarten
- Matching Clothing to Weather Conditions
Sort actual clothes according to weather conditions and seasons.
- Rules
Help Us Create a drawing and explain verbally, a good rule
for the classroom and the need for this rule.
- History
Sequence Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- 1st
Grade
- Linear
Measurement Select and use appropriate tools to determine
linear measurement.
- Can You Tell the Smell? Experiment
with a variety of smells, and predict the origin of the scent.
- Civics
Use pictures and words to demonstrate understanding of laws/rules
and why they are necessary.
- History
Put cards in order to show the cycle of the seasons and label
them.
- 2nd
Grade
- Measurement
and Time Label
the time on the three analog clocks and determine how much time
has lapsed between the clocks.
- Designing an Indoor Cricket Habitat
Create and evaluate the success of a variety of classroom cricket
habitats.
- Civics
Use pictures and words to demonstrate understanding of three differing
types of rule: Monarchy, Anarchy and Democracy.
- Geography
and Economics Use maps, charts, and other geographic tools
to understand the spatial arrangement of people, places, resources,
and environments on Earth’s surfaces.
- History
Given four pictures of a community taken at four different times
in history, place the pictures in chronological order, compare
and contrast them, etc.
- History
and Writing Given four pictures of a community taken at four
different times in history, place the pictures in chronological
order, compare and contrast them, etc.
- 3rd
Grade
- Add
and Subtract Money
Add and subtract money amounts up to $10.00 (including labeling
the money amounts with dollar signs and decimal points).
- Constructing a Scale That Works
Construct a scale and identify three articles that have the same
mass.
- Science Presentation on "Habitats"
Organize a science presentation using developmentally appropriately
scientific concepts and terms.
- Mathematical Problem Solving and Written
Communication: Perimeter and Area
- Building a Scale that Works--Cumulative
Activity Read poetry and title the poem citing inferences
in the poem to justify their title.
- Civics
Create a picture and an essay describing an important rule a good
citizen would follow, and what he/she would do if they were the
President.
- History:
County Identify the correct sequence and important events
in a given article.
- 4th
Grade
- Mathematical
Problem-Solving and Written Communication: Perimeter and Area
Solve a multi-step problem which requires application of the concepts
of perimeter and/or area.
- Circuits
- Conductors and Insulators Construct a circuit using a D-cell
battery a small electric motor two wires and a switch; test an
assortment of “mystery objects” on an open circuit to determine
whether the object is a conductor or insulator.
- Social
Studies - Civics Explain the purpose of classroom rules and
develop a poster to explain the playground rules to a younger
student.
- Economics
Use a Venn diagram and label the diagram with the given titles
and place given words and phrases in the correct spaces of the
diagram.
- Geography
Given an outline of Washington State, identify 20 of 25 geographical
attributes.
- History
Read and discuss information about selected eras and events in
Washington State history; group information in chronological order
on a timeline.
- 5th
Grade
- As Fast as a Speeding Car Measure
time and distance to calculate speed of a toy car after it has
rolled down an inclined plane.
- Mastery Activity Think of a
real-life problem similar to a problem previously studied in the
classroom and solve the problem using the scientific method.
- Science Presentation on "Body Systems"
Organize a science presentation using developmentally appropriately
scientific concepts and terms.
Civics Create a graphic
organizer of the executive/ presidential, the legislative/congress,
and the judicial/supreme court branches of the federal government.
Analyzing a Timeline Analyze,
compare, and contrast data on a timeline to answer questions:
How has the world changed since your grandparent was a child?
How have those changes impacted the lives of you and your parents?
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- 6th
- 12th Grade
Reading
- Report and Demonstration of Static
Electricity effects (8th Gr.) Present a report on electric
charge and static electricity which includes a synopsis of essential
background information (models, laws, theory and hypothesis) and
a demonstration of static electricity/electric charge effects.
- Current Events Reading Sequence
(9th Gr.) Use various graphic organizers successfully to analyze
current event articles representing different journalistic styles.
- Writing
- Conduct, Evaluate and Explain
Scientific Investigations (6th Gr.) Learn the process of how
experiments are conducted and documented; choose and conduct an
experiment and write a scientific report using the proper format.
- Explaining Sound (9th Gr.)
Write an expository magazine article for Scholastic Science magazine
explaining the properties of sound.
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Geography and Economics (6th Gr.) Locate the key ideas in
an article and write a paragraph that organizes the information
with a clear beginning, middle, and end.
- Persuasive
Letter to the Editor (10th Gr.) Use the information from three
graphs to read the data and restate information in paragraph form.
- Social
Studies
- Civics
- Comparing
Governments (6th Gr.) Write a rough draft of a compare and/or
contrast paper based on readings on the governments of Canada
and Mexico.
- Comparing
Governments (7th Gr.) Use definitions of three types of government
to research countries and analyze how the forms compare.
- Separation
of Powers (8th Gr.) Write a persuasive essay explaining why
it is important the Constitution includes a separation of powers
between the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the
federal government.
- Amending
Constitutions (9th Gr.) Create a graphic organizer to illustrate
the amendment processes in the US Constitution and the Washington
State Constitution and compare and contrast them.
- The
Fifth Amendment and the Miranda Decision (12th Gr.) Read a
summary of the fifth amendment and the Supreme Court case, Miranda
v. Arizona, complete a pre-writing activity and write an editorial
for the school newspaper.
- Geography
and Economics
- Geography
and Economics (6th Gr.) Use 4 types of graphics (a pie chart,
a bar graph, a line graph, and a pictograph), to answer questions.
- Geography
and Economics (7th Gr.) Use a collection of 6 graphs or charts
which contain economic data, and 3 untitled maps of ancient civilizations,
to correctly title each map and then match each map with 2 of
the given graphics.
- Geography
and Economics (8th Gr.) Choose a metropolitan city/area and
justify, via the geographical data, why its placement is logical.
- Graph
Analysis (9th Gr.) Analyze graphic information and create
a graph showing trends for a given natural resource in Washington
state.
- Graph
Analysis and Synthesis (10th Gr.) Accurately depict sequential
data in graphic form and make graphic predictions based upon observed
trends.
- History
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History (6th Gr.) Provide a written summary of at least 4
of 10 current events or issues, their historical context, and
a personal opinion or reaction.
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History (7th Gr.) Interpret charts and present information
on a graph.
- History
(8th Gr.) Read and summarize a letter written by Newton Scott
on November 3,1864, to a friend.
- Apartheid
Homeland Applications (10th Gr.) Read about the South African
apartheid era and the impact of homelands on native Africans.
- Science
- Conduct, Evaluate and Explain
Scientific Investigations (6th Gr.) Learn the process of how
experiments are conducted and documented; choose and conduct an
experiment and write a scientific report using the proper format.
- Designing and Experiment: Parachute
Design (7th Gr.) Design an experiment to compare different
parachute designs.
- Measuring Properties (7th
Gr.) Measure the density of the materials given.
- Electric Charge and Static Electricity
Quick Lab (8th Gr.) Investigate electric charge using a variety
of methods, observe the effects of electric charge on objects,
using the observations to form a question answerable by using
variables.
- Report and Demonstration of Static
Electricity effects (8th Gr.) Present a report on electric
charge and static electricity which includes a synopsis of essential
background information (models, laws, theory and hypothesis) and
a demonstration of static electricity/electric charge effects.
- Dissolved Oxygen vs. Temperature
Lab (9th Gr.) Investigate how the amount of dissolved oxygen
in a water sample is affected by temperature.
- Floating/Sinking Pop Cans (9th
Gr.) Observe varieties of canned soda to include both diet and
sugar based varieties, as they are placed in a water-filled aquarium/large
beaker.
- Science Presentation on "Arthropods"
(9th Gr.) Organize a science presentation using developmentally
appropriately scientific concepts and terms.
- Current Events Reading Sequence
(9th Gr.) Use various graphic organizers successfully to analyze
current event articles representing different journalistic styles.
- Explaining Sound (9th Gr.)
Write an expository magazine article for Scholastic Science magazine
explaining the properties of sound.
- Reaction Time Lab (10th Gr.)
Investigate how reaction time is affected by learning.
- Mathematics
- Taking a Trip (6th Gr.) Write a proposal
for the trip’s agenda, comparing and contrasting the benefits
and drawbacks of two possible routes.
- Mathematical Connections to Real Life Situations
Expository: Class Scheduling (7th Gr.) Select and uses tools
that measure time, ratios and percentages.
- STAR Problems: Show Thoughts and Reasons
(7th Gr.) Determine the cost of materials for a swimming area.
- Wall
Covering (7th Gr.) Draw a scale diagram of a wall; calculate
the area of the wall, the cost of wallboard to cover the wall,
the amount and cost of molding, etc.
- Math: Measurement; Writing: Technical, Persuasive
and Expository (9th Gr.) Compute the area of a room to be
painted; determine the amount of paint needed and the cost.
- Paint Proposal (9th Gr.) Calculate the
area of a particular room; calculate the cost of various brands
of paints; make a recommendation for one of the choices in an
organized and systematic form.
- Measuring:
Painting the Room (9th Gr.) Determine the number of cans of
paint required to paint a room, the total cost to purchase this
paint, and write a 1-2 paragraph memo to an employer justifying
the money needed for this painting project.
- Mathematical Problem Solving and Written
Communication: Using Geometric Formulas to Solve Equations
(10th Gr.) Solve a multi-step Show Thoughts and Reasoning (STAR}
problem that requires knowledge and application of area and volume
formulas, as well as solving linear and quadratic equations.
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