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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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 map of a Bull Kelp bed near Squaxin Island and asked to generate their own questions that could be answered using the map. 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 "Keeping An Eye On Kelp (Algebra)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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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 map of a Bull Kelp bed near Squaxin Island and asked to generate their own questions that could be answered using the map. 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 "Keeping An Eye On Kelp (Algebra)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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The purpose of this performance task is to engage students in looking for and making use of structure in order to determine the number of stink bugs on a given picture. Students review invasive species and the work of scientists to monitor such creatures, students are provided the problem in the context of supporting invasive species specialists. Working as individuals and then as pairs, students determine the total amount using previous knowledge of patterns such as counting, grouping, or fact families. The task concludes by having student-demonstrated strategies modeled and labeled as a whole group creating strategy posters. Includes slides to support the implementation of "Too Many Stink Bugs (K-2)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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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.
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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: replanting timber after a harvest or catastrophic burn. This is a complex and rich problem wherein students will need to determine an explicit expression or steps for calculation from the context provided. Students must decide on necessary resources for finding the solution and are given time as a group to complete their work. Includes slides to support the implementation of "Replanting Timberland (Algebra)" Math Performance Task with charts, images, etc.
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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 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.
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Students will hone their intuitive sense of biology and in the process discover what conditions are required for life. Students will also investigate how sunlight impacts the temperature of surfaces. Finally, students will engineerand test a shelter that can change a surface’s temperature to make it more compatible with apotential schoolyard creature.
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Students design, using materials they tested, a dwelling large enough to fit an origami frog and keep it dry in the rain. Student draft plans, build, test, and optimize their solutions to the question, “how do you build a natural toad abode?"
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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
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Students explore the connection between soil temperature and seed germination (sprouting).
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