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=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=


 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: Your task is to build a dynamic toy that uses energy from a child and/or its environment.

Role: You are a toy designer.

Audience: Young children at a nearby preschool.

Situation: You need to save your 3rd generation family owned business, Acme Toy company with an bestselling toy!

Product/Presentation: Create a dynamic toy prototype that does not use batteries or plug in. Have preschool students test the toy and pitch your design to a panel of retailers, consumers and manufacturers.

Standards (criteria from both rubrics): The toy should be safe, non-violent, fun, use energy from the child or the environment and is recyclable. || • Function • Modification/Testing • Process Documentation • Construction- Materials • Construction - Care Taken || • Energy and Design Content • Enthusiasm • Technical Vocabulary • Preparedness • Posture and Eye Contact •Time-Limit ||  ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • Scientific Knowledge

• Pugh chart • Toy video analysis • Conceptual design || • Blog reflections from client survey • Blog reflections on comments from instructables || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • Client survey/interview
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • Design Process Checklist

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** • Students will understand the process of designing and improving products and services. || •//Maine Learning Results//: Science & Technology - D.The Physical Setting D4 Force and Motion 9 - Diploma: Students will understand that the laws of force and motion are the same across the universe.
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * • Students will understand the laws of force and motion.

• //Maine Learning Results//: Science & Technology - B. The Skills and Traits of Scientific Inquiry and Technological Design B2 Skills and Traits of Technological Design 9 - Diploma: Students use a systematic process, tools and techniques, and a variety of materials to design and produce a solution or product that meets new needs or improves existing designs. ||

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * Big Idea || Big Idea ||
 * •Motion & Forces || •Design ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**// Acme Toy company is in the red. Their recent line of battery eating power wasters is not selling in the troubled US economy. Acme Toy company needs you to design and build or modify an existing dynamic toy that does not use batteries or plug into an electrical outlet. You will apply your understanding of how energy can be transformed from one form to another when using the engineering design process to create a prototype of a dynamic toy. The toy should be able to store energy in some form and transform it into kinetic energy. And of course, the toy should be safe, non-violent and fun. The toys will be evaluated by a team of young children at a nearby daycare facility, and you will submit a report on the company wiki before a final decision on made to mass produce your toy. Can you save Acme Toy before it is too late...?

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * •Toy prototype and documentation on a class wiki || •Audience: Parents, kids, manufacturer, retailer ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Function (2x) • Modification/Testing (2x) • Process Documentation (3x) • Construction- Materials • Construction - Care Taken || • Energy and Design Content (3x) • Enthusiasm (2x) • Technical Vocabulary (2x) • Preparedness • Posture and Eye Contact •Time-Limit ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • Scientific Knowledge (2x)
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**