Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–8 Professional Commentary: Students will investigate how different variables affect seed growth. Variables include type of seed, medium (paper towels, various types of soil), amount of water, amount of light, temperature.... 782 Stimulus/Response in Invertebrates Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students will devise simple experiments to test how a slug's or earthworm's structures allow it to accomplish various functions for survival. The task assesses students' understanding of scientific inquiry including the following skills: observation, background research, scientific procedures (including investigation design, measurement techniques, and error analysis), data collection, data display, scientific questions, formulating a hypothesis.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students use a dichotomous key to identify unknown fictitious organisms. This task assesses students' abilities to classify, and hypothesize about and interpret data.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students will measure the rate of sinking of a test tube into a beaker of "glop", representing a model of the interaction between the Earth's crust and upper mantle. This task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations, collect, record, and represent data, use a graph to represent data, relate the model to their knowledge of geologic processes, infer from the model why this geologic process occurs, and describe other factors not addressed by the model.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students use chart data to determine the location of the epicenter of an earthquake. This task assesses students' abilities to generalize and infer, organize data, interpret data, and apply mathematical concepts.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students will design and conduct an open-ended investigation using a variety of earth materials to answer a question posed by the teacher: How does the erosion of sand compare with the erosion of gravel? After producing evidence that addresses this question, they will generate their own question that could be answered with further scientific inquiry. The task assesses students' understanding of scientific inquiry including the following skills: observation, data collection, measurement, graphing, scientific questions.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: In this performance task, students use cardboard models of the North American and Pacific plates and sand to investigate what happens when there is an earthquake or movement along the boundaries of the plates. This performance assessment is part of the PALS (Performance Assessment Links in Science) collection.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 5–8 Professional Commentary: Students will interpret a graph of ocean depths and topographic features. This task assesses students' abilities to interpret figures, organize and represent data, apply knowledge of scale to a profile, and apply theoretical knowledge.... 789 Probing Under the Surface Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 6–8 Professional Commentary: Students will use a measuring stick to determine the shape of the inside of the bottom of a box, then apply their understanding to an additional situation. The task assesses students' abilities to make simple observations, collect and organize data, and apply their understanding to an additional situation.... Resource Type: Assessment Resource Discipline: Science Ohio Standards Alignment: Grades 3–5 Professional Commentary: Students are presented with three rocks and a variety of tools and are asked to investigate the properties of the rocks to see which rock will be best for building tables and benches for a museum picnic area. The task assesses students' abilities to design an investigation, make simple observations, make generalized inferences from their observations, and apply their understanding.... |