511 NAEP Assessment Item, Grade 12: Who are the heroes of today? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: English Language Arts Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 11–12 Professional Commentary: For this writing prompt, students write a persuasive essay in which they define heroism and make a case for individuals they believe to be real heroes. This is a sample persuasive writing prompt used in a past National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) assessment (for more information, see About NAEP).... Projects: Writing 6-12 512 Do you See What I See? Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students will observe a terrarium to brainstorm and explain the role of rocks, soil, and water in the terrarium. Students then create a model to explore the water cycle.... 513 Interdisciplinary Task: Weather Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–5 Professional Commentary: This task assesses students' abilities to observe scientific phenomena, communicate findings, synthesize multiple ideas, develop interpretation/personal response/critical stance, appropriately use language, and write to inform. This performance assessment is part of the PALS (Performance Assessment Links in Science) collection.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: This performance assessment activity assesses the students' abilities to formulate and apply rules that they can use to compare and rank things. The specific subject is the hardness and softness of minerals.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students observe water changing from a liquid to a gas during evaporation. Students will create a model to explore the water cycle.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students are asked to determine the most appropriate site for a car wash, based on each site's soil characteristics (chemical, physical) and topographic features. Students should have some knowledge of soils, stratigraphy, porosity, permeability, the water cycle, and map reading.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Business & Administrative Services, Human Services, Manufacturing Technologies Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: In this performance assessment students design and conduct an experiment to determine which earth material (sand, potting soil or limestone) or combination of earth materials will best reduce the acidity of "acid rain." During this activity they will work with a lab partner (or possibly two partners). The students must keep their own individual lab notes because after they finish, they will work independently to write a report "to the planning commission" that is trying to decide which earth material should be used around a local lake in order to reduce the effects of acid rain.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First 518 Water-holding Capacity Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: The retention of water by different materials affects their use by plants and animals. In this activity, students design a method to determine the water-holding capacity of sand, soil, and moss.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems, Construction Technologies Projects: Standards First 519 The Captain and Lake Wilmar Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 9–12 Professional Commentary: Students examine the ecosystem of Lake Wilmar through three coordinated performance tasks. In the first task, Decline in Freshwater Animal Populations, students use pH paper and water samples to investigate the effects of pH on freshwater animals.... Career Fields: Agricultural & Environmental Systems Projects: Standards First Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades K–2 Professional Commentary: Students use a binary classification system to divide objects, then justify their scheme. The task assesses primary students' abilities to perform process skills such as classification by using observable differences and similarities.... |