Requirements

• Attendance at all three days of the Summer Institute and a minimum of five monthly meetings are required.

• Pilot a Science Performance Assessment Task (either your own design or from the bank of tasks provided) and gather student work samples generated by that task.

• Post a descriptive vignette that emerges from a lesson developed as a result of the Summer Institute. The lesson should involve either a science performance task or an open-inquiry activity. Postings might describe an example of student learning, moments of uncertainty, moments in which the appropriate response was not clear, occasions when a student expressed an insight which was not anticipated, etc.

Credit option (in addition to the above):

• Develop a standards-based lesson plan aligned to the NH Science Curriculum Frameworks:

• Note the relevant GSE in Physical Science

• Note the relevant Science Process Skills

• Include the Science Performance Task

• a sample of student work generated by the performance task

• provide a written analysis (1 page) of your analysis of student understanding

• A 5-minute classroom videotape from implementation of the performance task, edited to demonstrate student thinking.