This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 1.PS4.3 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 2.LS4.1 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS performance 3.ESS3.1 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 1.LS3.1 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation K.ESS3.3 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation K.PS2.2 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 2.ESS2.2 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 2.PS1.2 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
This performance assessment aligns with NGSS Performance Expectation 5.PS1.2 and is intended to be used as an interim assessment. These assessments can either be used summatively, as an end of learning activity, or formatively, utilizing student responses to identify next instructional steps.
Material Type: Activity/Lab, Assessment
Collecting weather data across time supports data collection and analysis practices. Students can use their own data to look for patterns across time. Engaging in this assessment activity, developed by ClimeTime educators, will help students: explain the components that constitute weather and explain that these components change in patterns; describe how various components of weather can be different at different times of the year; explain how changes in the various elements of weather create patterns and influence behavior. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
In this task from ClimeTime educators, students will demonstrate understanding of natural resources and their uses with respect to their impact on the Earth. Students will do short explanations, drawing an image, and providing evidence to support an argument. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 4th grade students. After class brainstorm of the causes and effects of flooding on a playground or in a local context, students will generate solutions to the problems related to the flooding. Students will select two solutions to describe how the solutions could be implemented and what factors affect the success of the solutions. Students will describe which of the two solutions they think is best and the reasons for their decision. The resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, from ClimeTime educators, is for late-elementary (3-5) students, especially while studying about the needs of plants. Students use a simulation to test different variables and explore how different plants have different needs. Then, students connect what they saw in the simulation to plants in their area. The resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task developed by educators in the ClimeTime project, is for third grade students to explore weather data and make predictions about the nature of weather in different seasons based on historical data patterns. Scale is also explored as students are asked to explain the difference between weather and climate so some understanding that climate is weather data collected over time, averaged over decades is needed. Includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 5th grade students. After class discussions about trash, litter, and available programs for recycling and composting, students collect trash and sort it into “recycling,” “food waste/compostable,” and “landfill.” Students learn about littering behaviors. Students incorporate what they have learned to develop an argument using claim, evidence, reasoning. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, by ClimeTime educators, is for 4th grade students. After class discussions about how dams affect rivers, students analyze aerial photographs of the Elwha River taken just before and at intervals after the removal of the Elwha Dam. Students incorporate what they have learned about erosion to explain the phenomenon of change in the turbidity of the water and structure of the beach at the mouth of the river. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This assessment task, from ClimeTime educators, is aligned with middle school grades 6-8. The assessment context within the middle school curriculum is thermal energy transfer and developing a model for particle motion as energy transfers. Students are presented with a discrepant event when two ice cubes of the same size next to each other melt at astonishingly different rates. Before starting this assignment, students should have practice with drawing motion lines on particles and with drawing arrows for direction of heat transfer – this is not their first activity working with conduction and particles. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
In this assessment task from ClimeTime educators, students model thermal energy transfer between a hot liquid and a cooler solid, exploring how this might also occur in everyday phenomena. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, from ClimeTime educators, is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying body systems or algal blooms. Students develop a model showing the interactions that allow humans to detect issues in water quality based on the taste of the water. Resource includes a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
Material Type: Assessment
This task, by ClimeTime educators, is targeted to students in grades 6–8 studying ecology and human impacts on the environment. Students identify relationships between human activity and environmental impacts on water resources. Educators can leverage students’ ideas to assess understandings of criteria in evaluating solutions. Resources include a student task document, teacher guide, and task facilitation slides.
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