Write an informational letter to your friend answering the question “What is an estuary and what makes them so special?”. Use information from the reading/book, video, and your experience. Includes a reading booklet.
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Students at grade K are asked to write stories about what it is like to visit a beach. Students listen to a picture book, go on a nature walk, and read a booklet to give information for their story. You will also visit a local beach! Includes a reading booklet.
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Students in the 1st grade are asked to write stories about what it is like to take a walk in the woods. Students will listen to a picture book, watch a video, and read a booklet to give background knowledge for their stories. You may also use information from your own walks in the woods! Includes reading booklet.
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Students at grade K are asked to write stories about what it is like to visit a pond or a lake. Listen to a picture book, go on a nature walk, and read a booklet to give information for a story. You will also visit a local pond or lake! Includes booklets: one for the pond and one for the lake.
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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.
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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
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Students will examine several sources about Earth Day. Then answer three questions about what they have learned. In Part 2, students l write an explanatory essay about Earth Day for the essay. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students are asked to explain these benefits to a family from out of [WA] state that has just inherited 500 acres of forestland and are unsure about its value. Students use information from the article, the poster, and the video to answer three research questions and to write an essay, explaining the many benefits of a forest. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students are invited to submit an essay about invasive plants, to a local newspaper is publishing student essays about important environmental topics. The essay will be based on the research conducted through reading two sources, a fact sheet, and a blog, and watching a video about invasiveplants. Includes teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students are asked to present a speech at the opening of the River and Ocean Film Festival, explaining why marine debris is such a problem for wildlife. Use information from the video, the fact sheet, the infographic, and the data collected on the shoreline to outline a speech. The audience is visitors to the Washington Coast. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students will read two articles and watch one video describing what rain gardens are and how they benefit the environment. They will also visit your school’s rain garden, taking photos to document its benefits. Students will compose and deliver a speech explaining how rain gardens improve the environment, incorporating photos from your school’s rain garden in their speech. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students will watch two informational videos about stormwater management and read the job description for a stormwater engineer, taking notes on these sources. Then they will respond to three research questions and write an article explaining the important work of a stormwater engineer. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.
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Students write an essay explaining what stormwater is, how stormwater gets polluted, and two actions we can take to keep the stormwater clean. Students will read an article, view a video, and study a diagram to build knowledge of stormwater pollution. Then write an essay to share at the Parent Information Night. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.
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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.
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Students will write an informational essay explaining the What, Why and How of water monitoring. They will use information from videos and articles to write an essay. Includes Teacher directions and scoring notes.
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The purpose of this 3 ACT task is to provide students with an opportunity to problem-solve based on a real-world situation (Claims 2 and 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 3 of the task addresses CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.HSF-LE.B.5 (Interpret the parameters in a linear or exponential function in terms of context). This performance task is intended for students with prior knowledge of geometric sequences or graphs of exponential growth, table and graph creation, and pattern recognition. Includes Power Point slides.
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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 a scenario faced by Washington State logging companies transporting timber to mills after harvest. 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 Three to see if it answers their question. Includes slides to support the implementation of "Get the Logs to the Mill (Algebra)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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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.
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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 community builders and city and state planners nationwide. Students are presented with a collection of representations of homes and people. Students discuss questions we can ask and answer using this data. They will use strategies to organize information and discover how many more people are there than homes. Includes slides to support the implementation of "Housing Our Community (K-2)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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