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=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You are a scientist who is well versed in all content areas, especially Genetics. Audience: The audience consists of television producers who will be responsible for airing the series on Discovery Channel Kids. Situation: This challenge requires that you and your fellow colleagues harness all of your knowledge of genetics and heredity and apply it to genetic disorders. Your job as a possible host for a future television show, is to select a genetic disorder and create a children's show discussing the background behind the disorder. It should appeal to and be readily absorbed by children twelve years of age and older. To fully educate your listeners, you need to address what the disease is, how it is diagnosed, whether or not it is hereditary, how it affects your genotype/phenotype, and whether or not there are any treatments. Product/Presentation: You will produce a 5 to 6 minute sneak preview of you show using iMovie or Garageband to aid the producers in deciding whether or not your show could be the next big hit. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): iMovie/Podcast/Comic Life Rubric: Content, preparedness, time limit, speaks clearly, creativity, comprehension. Oral Presentation Rubric: Content, preparedness, comprehension, speaks clearly, time-limit, creativity. || •Assessments: 1. Using iMovie or Comic life, create a sequential display in a medium of your choice to show the creation of codons into genes and chromosomes. 2. Explore genetics using an online simulation to show how certain traits are inherited from parent genes into future generations. As a class, discuss how the genotype and phenotype changes throughout the duration of the simulation and how it applies to you. 3. Create a poem, song, or music video that addresses cell differentiation and the human body. 4. Create an in class iMovie showing how resistance in bacteria is affected by the make up of DNA. || • Use the class wikispace to reflect and discuss with classmates about how DNA actually form genes, and debate when/how it happens within the body. • After each project, students will self-assess their product as well as their progress. • Students will keep a portfolio in which products and reflections are kept to track progress. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: Your group task is to convince a panel of producers working for Discovery Channel Kids that your group of scientists is the best candidate to host a television show dedicated to different areas of science.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * •Labs: using simulations, investigate monohybrid crosses, punnet squares, family genes and heredity.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • Students will write in their blog at the end of each class to summarize and reflect on what they have learned.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** E The Living Environment E4 Genetics and Heredity b.. ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * •The student will understand that DNA codes for different genes which make up the human genome. || • MLR Science and Technology

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 Idea || Big Idea ||
 * •Genetics || •Disorders ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * You are an up and coming scientist who has been presented with the opportunity to host a children’s show for Discovery Channel Kids. This new show will film many different volumes, each pertaining to different areas of science. In order to determine if you are the right host for them, the producers have decided that each contestant will create a five or six minute sneak preview show based on a specific genetic disorder. The sneak peek needs to include what the disease is, how it is diagnosed, whether or not it is hereditary, how it affects your genotype and phenotype, and whether or not there are any treatments. In order to be selected as the future host of this new children’s series, you will need to win over the hearts and minds of both the producers and the elementary students who will be viewing your show. Remember, this show is designed for children between the ages of ten and fifteen, so keep it fun and interesting! If selected as the winner, the producers will fly you out to their headquarters in Silver Springs, Maryland, and then on to L.A. to begin filming your show. ||

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

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Preparedness • Time Limit • Speaks Clearly • Creativity • Comprehension || • Content • Preparedness • Comprehension • Speaks Clearly • Time Limit • Creativity ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • Content
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**