Authentic Performance Activities (Assessment)
Understanding by Design (UbD) works backwards from traditional teaching methods, starting with the lessons’ goals and objectives (the “outcomes”) and planning curriculum to reach that goal.
Authentic performance activities help assess the students’ understanding of the topic as they explain and interpret their “job” using this knowledge. Imagine every science topic integrating an authentic performance to show students how this knowledge can be applied to every day life, potential future careers and world issues like medical health, conservation and public safety. At the same time, the educator, other students and the students themselves can assess their grasp of the concepts.
Adaptations – Authentic Performance
Brazil Nut Tree Life Cycle – Authentic Performance (NGSS 6-8 Grade)
Bullfrog Reproductive Behavior – Authentic Performance
Cellular Respiration – Authentic Performance Activity
Classification – Authentic Performance Activity
Cycles of Matter and Energy Transfer in Ecosystems – Meat Industry – Authentic Performance (HS)
Environmental Changes and Mangroves – Authentic Performance
Food Webs – Authentic Performance Activity
Forest Succession – Authentic Performance Activity
Heredity and Pollination – Authentic Performance Activity
Information Processing – Protecting Sea Turtles – Authentic Performance
Inheritance and Variation of Traits in Caribou Herds – Authentic Performance (Grade 9-12)
Inheritance and Variation of Traits in Flowers – Authentic Performance
Life Cycles – Authentic Performance Activity
Monarch Butterfly Reproductive Behavior – Authentic Performance
Rodents – Authentic Performance Activity
Seed Dispersal Adaptation – Authentic Performance
Selective Breeding in Llamas – Authentic Performance
Sunlight Crisis – Volcanic Apocalypse Authentic Performance (Grade 9-12)
The Dangerous Migration of Birds – Authentic Performance
Variation of Traits in Animals – Authentic Performance
Volcanic Apocalypse – Sunlight Authentic Performance
Water Cycle – Authentic Performance Activity
Wetlands Value – Authentic Performance