High School Science CIA Mon Dec 14

1. High School Science CIA Mon Dec 14 Announcements CAPT Prep Performance Based Assessment in NHPS Science

2. Announcements • Cert/CEUs • Principal… communicate • Outside groups/course/activities communicate with ME • Upcoming PD… Jan 23 Science Fair • Chem curriculum

3. CAPT Plan • See plan.. Report activities Dec 22 • Need to follow pacing • Need Significant Task Evidence • Need Data Team Minutes • Review experimentation skills/vocab • CAPT review: includes exp, ninth grade, practice test

4. Quarterly Assessments • Check results/item analysis • Practice open ended, groups, drawing • Review questions, verbs • What are the trends in results? • Issues? (bubbling/part rate) • Review 2nd quarter assessments! (Jan 8 deadline)

5. STEM Tier II • New district improvement plan • Tied to school reform/21st century skills • (communication, critical thinking, inquiry, problem solving, collaboration) • Forum Jan 15th: stakeholders identify skills • Then: Measures, program review and revision

6. Performance Based Assessments • (significant tasks… projects) • Are summative, not formative • Tie science concepts/skills to others. • Not new… very popular in the 90s • Demonstrate knowledge • Have an element of authenticity

7. Key components of PBAs • Longterm • Skills AND concepts • Transfer learning: new situation • HOTS skills • Authentic/alternative • Interdisciplinary (STS • Collaborative • Scored: Peer, Public, rubric

8. PBAs in NHPS Science • We can start with sig tasks… • PBA ≠ labs , it is more than that. • Students need to pull info from more than one source to analyze/synthesize. • Introduce at the beginning… it is the goal of the learning! • Make sure it is science, not just creative regurgitation.

9. PBAs in NHPS Science • Earth/Bio/Chem 21 courses • NH Academy project tasks • Science Fair Project • Research Project

10. Issues • Special Ed/Differentiated Instruction • Time/Resources • Rubrics and Objectivity (that’s another session!) • Matching Project to Standards • Validity, communication to others • Completion vs. Mastery • Could YOU do it?

11. GRASPS is a tool to help develop authentic assessments (UBD) • Goal • Role • Audience • Situation (Scenario) • Product or Performance • Standards (Rubric)

12. Examples of Performance-Based Assessment PRODUCTS • Portfolios • Work samples • Projects and reports • Research papers • Science lab reports • Logs and journals • Models • Media projects

13. Examples of Performance-Based Assessment PERFORMANCES • Oral presentations • Media presentation • Science lab demo • Athletic demo • Musical, dance, dramatic presentation • Debate • Demonstration of specific tasks • Participation in events • Interviews with students

14. Sample PBA • You are an urban planner with the city of Mt. Shasta in California. You have been asked to develop and present a risk assessment and mitigation plan in the event that Mt. Shasta should erupt. You hope to reduce the loss of life and property damage by accurately predicting when, and to what extent, a volcanic eruption might affect Mt. Shasta. You will need to prepare a plan that you present to the city council. Present your plan in the form of a PowerPoint presentation. Be sure to inform the public with critical background information by telling the geologic story of Mt. Shasta. Include a research-based prediction of when the next eruption might occur. Prepare a map that shows the areas most likely to be affected by an eruption. Describe your emergency response plan based on the predicted flow of the path of the lava. In addition to maps, it is fine to use additional visuals as needed, as long as they support the presentation. Your presentation should be clear, compelling, and scientifically accurate.

15. Ideas for PBAs • Write a lab/technical manual • Energy in your life project • Cartoon/Lesson teaching metric system • Molecules skit/play • Wire a house • Analyze a local pollution problem/develop policy brief

16. Ideas for PBAs • Plan to study a human disease, and ethics standards • Present on a genetic disorder • Analyze a local traffic intersection/light • Energy Source Forum • Solve a non violent crime using science skills • Present a solution to a landslide scenario • Interpretive dance on a cellular process • Biography/interview of an organelle

17. Ideas for PBAs • Chemistry of a car forum • Essay about acid rain/ozone depletion/global warming priorities • Design a new species, its habitats, taxonomy, and structures. • Year in the life of a tree, plot, yard, etc.. • Write a letter to a scientist about a social issue • Design a better coffee cup • Predict the weather for CT

18. Ideas for PBAs • Select an animal, describe evolution in a million years. • Design a new periodic table • Role play chemical bonds with the class • Analyze cartoon physics • Present on if the moon didn’t exist • Debate traditional orthopedic medicine versus chiropractic medicine,

19. Ideas for PBAs • Analyze traffic accidents • Design a blimp • Debate on pesticides • Interview/Shadow/Present on life of a lab tech • Analyze the physics of High School Musical • Debate nuclear energy • Build a model of CT Geology

20. Links • To share: www.newhavenscience.org • Or http://newhavenscience.wikispaces.com • www.nhsciencefair.org • www.21skills.org • http://chemconnections.org/modules/index.html • http://pals.sri.com • http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/projects/cases/ubcase.htm • http://www.emtech.net/Alternative_Assessment.html • http://www.teachervision.fen.com/childrens-science-activities/printable/30270.html • http://www.ubdexchange.org

21. A humorous look at some characteristics of authentic assessment…..

22. Authentic assessments……...

23. …specify a goal and a role • Psychology • Employing principles from the major schools of psychoanalytic thought, successfully subject yourself to analysis. Make appropriate personality changes, bill yourself, and fill out all medical insurance forms. Now do the same to the person seated to your immediate left.

24. …replicate real world contexts • Medicine • You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your own appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have fifteen minutes.

25. …include standards • Economics • Develop a realistic plan for refinancing the national debt. Run for Congress. Build a political power base. Successfully pass your plan and implement it.

26. …take time • Biology • Create life. Estimate the differences in subsequent human culture if this form of life had developed earlier, with special attention to the probable effects on the English parliamentary system. Prove your thesis.

27. …apply knowledge and skills • Chemistry • Transform lead into gold. You will find a beaker and three lead sinkers under your seat. Show all work including Feynman diagrams and quantum functions for all steps. You have fifteen minutes.

28. …often require innovation • Physics • Explain the general theory of relativity. Keep it simple. Now demonstrate the limits of faster-than-light travel through an experiment of your own design.

29. ...…may culminate a unit • Political Science • There is a red telephone on the desk behind you. Start World War III. Report at length on its socio-political effects, if any.