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As your final project for this course, you’ll be creating a unit plan which includes a performance based assessment for
your future students to complete. The goal of this performance based assessment is to blend literacy, technology, and
your content area together into an applicable project for your future teaching. You’ll be writing instructions for your
students, providing them with resources, developing a rubric to guide their projects, and creating a student sample to
share as a presentation. In addition to the performance task, text dependent questions, literacy strategies, and the use
of multiple texts should be included. Your unit plan should reflect significant learning from the course.
Essential Questions The unit plan is Essential questions Essential questions Essential questions are
x1=5/5 missing essential are presented but are broad and broad and universal
questions. may not be broad universal reflecting reflecting the key inquires
and universal or the key inquires of of the discipline.
reflect key inquires of the discipline. Questions help students
the discipline. Questions may help
students make make sense of abstract
sense of abstract ideas.
ideas.
Standards and Learning The objectives and The unit plan The unit plan The unit plan includes
Objectives x1=5/5 lesson activities do contains content includes content specific content and
not align with the standards, but and literacy literacy standards that
standards presented. literacy standards standards that align demonstrate the learner’s
are either missing or with a subject strong understanding of
Objectives are not appropriately matter within the the content.
missing or not aligned with the learner’s content
written in content. area. Standards are
measurable terms. grade/content appropriate
Some standards are Standards are and intend to challenge
grade/content grade/content students at different
appropriate appropriate levels.
Performance Task and Performance task is The unit plan has The unit plan includes The unit plan includes
Other Assessments x2 = missing or does not some assessment several assessment sophisticated assessment
0/10 missing; template require students to methods that are more methods based on methods based on
is blank summative than knowledge of Common knowledge of Common Core
formative. There is Core expectations that expectations that are
write about their alignment with learning are aligned with strongly aligned to learning
November 29: 10/10 thinking. objectives. learning objectives. objectives.
Selection and Evaluation Unsuccessful at Locates needed Locates quality Locates reliable, discipline-
of Print and Digital locating information on a topic information on a topic specific information from a
Resources – Required information on the from a variety of from a variety of variety of sources that
Elements x2 topic or meets none of sources and meets sources. exceed the required criteria.
the criteria. required criteria.
Evaluate resources of Shows no evidence of Analyzes information Analyzes quality
information and source evaluation from information from Analyzes quality,
sources critically x1 various sources to various discipline-specific
assess sources to assess information from various
accuracy, authority, accuracy, sources to assess accuracy,
bias, and authority, bias, and bias,
timeliness timeliness authority and
timeliness
Rationale for relevance, Little or no relevance to Adequate explanation Thoroughly explains An
connection to objectives, unit topic and little or of relevance and relevance to in-depth and thoughtful
and integration of no connection to integration with topic and advanced analysis of
resources x1 planned objectives. planned objectives for integration with relevance to topic and
each resource planned objectives for demonstrates sophisticated
identified each resource integration to planned
identified objectives for each resource
identified
Use resources represents Lacks knowledge of Follows laws, Follows laws, Follows laws, regulations,
ethical and legal use laws, regulations, regulations, and institutional policies
X1 regulations, and and institutional and institutional regarding access to and use
institutional policies policies policies of information resources
regarding access to and regarding access to and regarding access to and demonstrates an
use use and use understanding of
of information of information of information plagiarism
resources resources resources
and shows evidence of and demonstrates an and demonstrates an
willful plagiarism. understanding of understanding of
plagiarism plagiarism
Presentation Does not include all Basic explanation of Explanation of topic, Detailed and specific
X3 information in components without rationale, enduring explanation of topic,
presentation. All elaboration from some understandings, rationale, enduring
members of the group group members. essential questions, understandings, essential
do not participate. performance task, questions, performance task,
essay, and each essay, and each content
content areas major areas major assignments. All
assignments. information is clearly
aligned.