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Role: Your team are professional comic book authors Audience: Marvel executives critiquing the creativeness and educational value of the comic book. Situation:Marvel Comics are looking for creative educational comics to provide to kids who have a hard time understanding evolution. Product/Presentation: Your team will create this comic book using comic life and make a short presentation explaining why your comic should be chosen. Standards:Presentation: time limit, posture and eye contact, attire, preparedness, enthusiasm, and vocabulary. Comic Life: Clarity and neatness, spelling and grammer, content, required elements, cooperation, and creativity. || •Wiki: Compare and contrast the facets of natural selection •GarageBand: Create a radio show on how the facets of natural selection drives evolution || •Pre-assessment: I want to see what students know about evolution and what they think about it. •Class Discussion: Discuss the differences and similarities of creationism and evolution. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal:Your goal is to make a creative comic life that shows adaptation, natural selection, and evolution.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * •Test: Tested on natural selection and evolution
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * •Blogs: Use to share opinions about creationism and evolution. Students will make comments on each others blogs.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** E. The Living Environment E5: Evolution ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * •Students will understand that there are multiple facets that drive evolution. || •Maine Learning Results: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 ||
 * •Evolution || •Natural Selection ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * Marvel Comics has just published a contest looking for creative comics about evolution. As professional authors, you have entered this contest to make a creative comic that depicts an animal and its evolution. The parameters of the contest mandate that the comic must be easy for an elementary student to understand. Also the comic needs to be fun to read in order for it to be considered. The Marvel executives will come and listen to your team presentations and judge which comics are have the most potential to be published. The winner of this contest will meet with these executives, who will give some last minute revisions, and tell your team they have one week to finish the revisions and submit the comic for publishing. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * •Comic Life || •Present ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Spelling and Grammar 20% •Content 10% •Required Elements 30% •Cooperation 10% •Creativity 10% || •Time Limit 10% •Posture and Eye Contact 15% •Attire 15% •Preparedness 30% •Enthusiasm 20% •Vocabulary 10% ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * •Clarity and Neatness 20%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**