Performance based assessment
Each lesson of this unit will be geared towards the students completion of an integrated Performance Based Assessment geared towards providing access to all learners across all of Gartner's multiple intelligences.
Students will assume the role of an immigrant from Europe, Asia or the original 13 colonies and share their immigration story. Student immigrants are part of the US’ Westward Expansion. Their story will include at least four journal entries, one photograph/ illustration and a detailed design of an environmentally sustainable tool, method or policy used in their new western home.
Students will include:
Students will then share their immigrant story with a classmate. The classmate will write a letter to the immigrant “from the future”. Their letter will compare today’s immigrant experience with the experience of the immigrant from the 1800’s.
The letter will include:
Differentiation Ideas:
Teachers can allow students to work independently or with groups based on students' learning styles. In addition, templates and graphic organizers can be provided to students who require scaffolding with letter writing and idea generation. Journals can take the form of written entries, illustrations, a photo scrapbook or a combination of all media forms.
Students will assume the role of an immigrant from Europe, Asia or the original 13 colonies and share their immigration story. Student immigrants are part of the US’ Westward Expansion. Their story will include at least four journal entries, one photograph/ illustration and a detailed design of an environmentally sustainable tool, method or policy used in their new western home.
Students will include:
- Conditions in their homeland which led them to emigrate
- Why they choose to explore the western frontier
- Map of their journey west identifying the transportation used to arrive to their new home
- Description of their life in the West
- Discussion and illustration or outline of their sustainability measure
Students will then share their immigrant story with a classmate. The classmate will write a letter to the immigrant “from the future”. Their letter will compare today’s immigrant experience with the experience of the immigrant from the 1800’s.
The letter will include:
- Reasons people choose to emigrate today
- Treatment of immigrants today in the US
- Sustainability measures in place today
Differentiation Ideas:
Teachers can allow students to work independently or with groups based on students' learning styles. In addition, templates and graphic organizers can be provided to students who require scaffolding with letter writing and idea generation. Journals can take the form of written entries, illustrations, a photo scrapbook or a combination of all media forms.