S2+Baum,Jennifer+Lynn

=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Product: Use of class time (10%), Attractiveness (15%), Content/Accuracy (30%), Required Elements (15%), Originality (20%), and Mechanics/Grammar (10%). Presentation: Content (35%), Speaks clearly (10%), Collaboration with peers (10%), Enthusiasm (15%), Time-limit (10%), and Preparedness/Attire (20%). || • Glogster: Design a new species and create a visual poster of it. • iMovie: Make an iMovie about the life story of a stem cell. •Podcast: Create a song, rap, story, etc... that explains the differences and similarities of cells within an organism. •Blog: Create a newspaper article in which you pretend you are the first person to figure out the exceptions to Mendel's Laws and persuade the readers how and why parts of his Laws are not accurate. •ComicLife: Design a model to show how DNA is replicated. || •Self-Assessment: Students will assess their learning throughout the unit to give ongoing feedback to the student and teacher. •Blog: Students will reflect on labs, classes, and projects periodically throughout the unit in order to give them an opportunity to reflect and demonstrate understandings of essential topics as well as misconceptions. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Your task is to design a new mutant gene to help humans adapt to our ever-changing world.
 * Role:** You are a young team of scientists with the opportunity to sell your idea and receive lots of funding for the subsequent research.
 * Audience:** You need to convince a team of researchers from Jackson Labs that you are a worthy investment and that you have come up with the best mutation/adaptation.
 * Situation:** The challenge you have involves discovering necessary adaptations to deal with our quickly changing world in order to allow humans to adapt and keep up with the changes.
 * Product/Presentation:** You will create a Glogster in order to show why your mutation/adaptation would work to help humans quickly adapt to the drastic changes you feel are most important to adapt to.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * • Wikispaces: Students will follow their family history and create a genealogy tree to follow different traits and mutations between generations.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • Preassessment: Students will be given an ungraded quiz on basic concepts of genetics to determine their level of understanding before starting the unit.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** from one generation to the next and that variation exists between and within individuals, species, and evolving new species. || •MLR: Science and Technology E. The Living Environment 4. Heredity and Reproduction ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Students will understand that DNA plays a vital role in transferring traits

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * **Big Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * •Genetics || •Variation ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * Your task is to design a new mutant gene to help humans adapt to the ever-changing world we live in. You are a young team of scientists with the opportunity to sell your idea and receive a substantial amount of funding for the subsequent research. You need to convince a team of researchers from Jackson Labs that you are a worthy investment and that you have come up with the best mutation/adaptation for the human species. The challenge involves dealing with the many changes in our world including our environment and way of life. You have been challenged to figure out what traits and adaptations would best allow humans to adjust and keep up with these drastic changes in our world. In order to complete this challenge, you will create a Glogster (an online poster) that you will use to convince the team of researchers that you have come up with the best mutation/adaptation to help humans adapt to these changes that your team feels is most important to adapt to. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •Glogster || •Oral Presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Attractiveness (15%) •Content/Accuracy (30%) •Required Elements (15%) •Originality (20%) •Mechanics/Grammar (10%) || •Content (35%) •Speaks Clearly (10%) •Collaboration with Peers (10%) •Enthusiasm (15%) •Time-Limit (10%) •Preparedness/Attire (20%) ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •Use of Class Time (10%)
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**