Stellar Science Lessons

This is a performance task to demonstrate understanding. Includes model of student response, assessment list, and grading of model. To the student: "Your task is to use what you have learned about energy transfer and transformation from our work with batteries, wires, bulbs, and other devices to explain how energy transfer and transformation is happening in the overhead projector. For this task, the "system" we will study starts with the electric power lines that come to our school and ends with

This quiz correlates with the 4 major evidences for evolution, and the labs used in class. Instead of students regurgitating facts, they must use the concepts from class and their lab skills for this quiz. Find the companion take-home portion of the quiz, which encourages the students to use critical thinking and creativity to explain evolution, niches, and environmental pressure.

Students use their resources from class and research to extrapolate the evolution of survival creatures after a mass extinction.

Students read the H.G. Wells story, "The Stolen Bacillus" after a week of learning about laboratory safety in the classroom (daily plans included). After reading the story, students examine classroom for safety issues.