Authors: Helen L. Burz, Kit Marshall
ISBN-13: 9780803965072, ISBN-10: 0803965079
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Corwin Press
Date Published: April 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This guide shows you how to develop a performance-based curriculum based on nationally recommended standards. Use these benchmarks and assessments to take your students beyond knowledge and basic skills by teaching them to be accountable for showing what they are learning. Your students will apply their knowledge in a learning performance can you can both observe and measure.
Educators, parents, business and industry leaders, and community member throughout the nation want students to be able to demonstrate what they learn. Shifting the focus from "knowing" to "showing" means your instruction, curriculum, assessment, and evaluation will be oriented toward having your students apply what they've learning in meaningful ways.
Performance-Based Curriculum for Science offers you a framework for a logical, incremental transition to a performance-based orientation. Provides performance benchmarks to assess progress at Grades 3, 5, 8, and 12. Offers key competencies, concepts, and content that all students should know.
Benchmarks and examples follow national science standards by
Also includes templates you can customize and use for teaching your students to "show what they know" and technology connections to apply measurable, performance-based learning to computer-aided classrooms.
Written for school and district wide administrators, professional development specialists, science department heads, and individual science teachers who wish to developperformance-based assessments for their classrooms.
Preface | ||
About the Authors | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Content/Concept Standards for Science | 11 |
Why Is Science Important? | 11 | |
Vision | 11 | |
Program Goals | 11 | |
Process Skills | 12 | |
Content Strands | 12 | |
Content/Concept Standards | 13 | |
Performance Benchmark Format | 13 | |
Life Science - Living Things | 15 | |
Life Science - Ecosystems | 21 | |
Physical Science - Matter | 27 | |
Physical Science - Energy | 33 | |
Earth Science - Meteorology | 39 | |
Earth Science - Geology | 44 | |
Earth Science - Space Science | 50 | |
2 | Technology Connections | 57 |
Summary | 57 | |
Skills and Abilities | 59 | |
Physical Science - Matter: Technology Connections | 64 | |
Earth Science - Geology: Technology Connections | 68 | |
3 | Performance Designers | 73 |
Performance Designer Format | 73 | |
Examples of Learning Actions | 78 | |
Sample Performance Designers | 79 | |
Appendix | Blank Templates | 87 |
Bibliography | 95 |