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=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You and your partner have been hired to create an episode for Science Faction. Audience: You will be presenting your comic site to the president and board of Science Faction. Situation: If the president and board like your comic site, you will be hired full time. Product/Presentation: A product showing the changes in the form of either an iMovie, ComicLife, or GarageBand. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Oral Presentation: speaks clearly, comprehension, listens to others presentation, enthusiasm, stays on topic, preparedness. Product iMovie, GarageBand or ComicLife: content, cooperation with teammate, time (5-8 minutes), spelling and grammar, qaulity of product and interest. || •Student will create an iMovie showing either a biological or geophysical change that the Earth goes through. •A quiz about the our atmosphere and comparing it to other planet's atmosphere. •Students will participate in interactive labs on Carbon Footprint and the Atmosphere. •Students will create an Inspiration Diagram illustrating an effect on the Earth. •Students will create an Inspiration Diagram showing how humans use of resources can affect Earth. •Students will complete an Interactive Lab about resources and humans affect on the environment. || •Student will use a checklists to self-assess their Inspiration Diagrams. •Students will blog about interactive labs. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: The goal is to create a site for Science Faction in which you explain how the Earth is constantly changing.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * •Students will complete a ComicLife showing how the Earth is affected by ocean currents, solar radiation or differing atmospheric conditions.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * •Student will use a checklist to self-assess their iMovie.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** D.Physical Setting D2 Earth ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * •Humans have had an affect on Earth Systems and that the Earth is changing. || •Maine Learning Results

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 ||
 * •Biological Changes. || •Geophysical Changes ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * Science Faction is a world wide online comic book distributor that creates sites that use real life science in the form of comic books. They have been searching the whole world to find people that know how the Earth is constantly changing and what factors effect the Earth. Science Faction has finally found two students who demonstrate this knowledge. They have chosen you and your partner, because of your vast understanding of the Earth, to create this product for them. In this issue of Science Faction they have given you the option of creating this product through ComicLife, iMoive or GarageBand. This is your task. You have one week to complete it. Good luck! ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * •ComicLife, GarageBand or iMovie. || •An oral presentation. ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Cooperation with teammate •Time (5-8 minutes) •Spelling and grammar •Quality of product •Interest || •Speaks Clearly •Comprehension •Listens to others presentation •Enthusiasm •Stays on topic •Preparedness ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * •Content
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**