Los estudiantes leen un articulo, miran un video y toman notas de estos dos recursos de los que aprenden sobre contaminación del agua pluvial y como prevenirla. También aprenden la frase "que no baje agua sucia al drenaje" y escriben un ensayo para informar a otros estudiantes sobre la importancia del agua limpia para tener peces sanos.

Los estudiantes leen un articulo, miran un video y exploran una guía de campo de bolsillo y luego responden tres preguntas de investigación. Después, conducen un inventario biológico (bioblitz) y escriben un ensayo explicando lo que es un inventario biolgico o bioblitz.

Diseñado para proveer informacion básica sobre energía renovable incluyendo qué es, cómo funciona y las ventajas y desventajas para el ambiente. Cada tarea de desempeño enfoca en un tipo de energía renovable, incluyendo información básica y con suficiente información para escribir ensayos de persuasión. La tarea de energía renovable y no renovable culmina con un discurso. Los maestros cuentan con una rúbrica para calificar el discurso como pracita del SBAC. Se proporciona una plantilla para preparar los discursos.

Los estudiantes de tercer grado leen un artículo y miran un video sobre cómo empezar una hortaliza. Toman notas de estas dos fuentes y escriben un ensayo de información para explicarle a otra clase cmo empezar su propia hortaliza. 

Designed to provide basic background knowledge about renewable energy including what it is, how it works and the advantages and disadvantages for the environment. Each task focuses on a type of renewable energy, including basic background knowledge, career information, and a variety of print and video resources. Students practice the research skills of locating information, selecting the best information and having enough information to explain or persuade. Renewable and Non-renewable Energy, culminates in a speech. Teachers are provided with the SBAC Speech rubric for scoring the student presentations. A template is provided for planning speeches. 

Your class has been asked to help other students to learn about the importance of clean waterfor healthy fish. Students will read an article and watch a video, taking notes on these sources. Through these sources, students will learn about stormwaterpollution and how we can prevent it. They will also learn the importance of this phrase: Only rain down the drain! Essays will help other students to understand the importance of clean water for healthy fish! Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes

Students are asked to explain to another class what is required to start a vegetable garden. Students will watch a video and read an article about starting a vegetable garden, taking notes on these sources, and then write an informational essay. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.

The purpose of this task is to give students the opportunity to use mathematics in real-world applications. In this task, students are introduced to the ongoing problem of affordable housing faced by state and national community builders and city planners. Students are presented with two data tables illustrating cost of housing and wage increases over 20 years. Students discuss questions they can ask and answer using this data. They will calculate the cost increase of housing over time and compare it to wage increase, concluding with a discussion about the comparison. Includes slides to support the implementation of "Housing Our Community (Grades 3-5)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.

The purpose of this Performance task is to provide students with an opportunity to problem solve based on a real-world situation (Claims 2 & 4). Due to the nature of the task, there are a variety of mathematical approaches students can take to successfully complete the task, however the mathematical approach presented in Act Three of the task addresses CCSS Domain of Operation and Algebraic Thinking. With this approach, students are shown different strategies for using multiplication to find the solution. Includes slides to support the implementation of “The Winner Is…Native Plants (3-5)” Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.

The purpose of this 3 ACT task is to provide students with an opportunity to problem solve based on a real-world situation. In the task, students are presented with 2 facts related to European Green Crabs and asked to generate their own questions that could be answered using one or both facts. Students then decide on necessary resources for finding the solution and are given time as a group to complete their work. The task concludes by having students examine the information provided in Act III to see if it answers their question. Includes slides to support the implementation of "What's the Problem (3-5)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.

Se introduce a los estudiantes al fenomeno de las hojas que cambian de color en el otono. En estas tres lecciones los estudiantes observan hojas y las separan por sus caracteristicas para aprender a identificar el arbol de donde provienen.

Los estudiantes exploran la conexion entre la temperatura de los suelos y la germinacion de las semillas.

Students are introduced to the phenomenon of leaves changing color in the fall. In these three lessons students, 1) observe leaves and sort them by their characteristic to explore the concept that trees’ leaves have unique characteristics that help identify the tree and are inherited from their parent tree