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Next Generation Science Assessments: Explore and use these classroom-ready assessment tasks. The tasks are intended to support teaching and learning in classrooms that are enacting NGSS-aligned instruction, and to gain insights into students’ progress in building proficiency with NGSS performance expectations (PEs). They have organized their collection of tasks according to clusters of PEs within each disciplinary topic. Under each cluster of PEs, they present a set of less broad but more manageable three dimensional performance statements that they call Learning Performances (LPs), which collectively describe the performances that students need to demonstrate as they progress toward achieving a cluster of performance expectations.

My Rubrics:

IB Rubrics: International Baccalaureate 8th grade science Criterion A-D rubrics for grading.
Earth, Sun and Moon Progress Chart: Adapted from the IB rubrics above, these incorporate the standard being assessed and the wording from the IB rubrics to create a kid friendly progress chart.
Forces and Motion Progress Chart: Adapted from the IB rubrics above, these incorporate the standard being assessed and the wording from the IB rubrics to create a kid friendly progress chart.

My Student Assessments:

Position and Motion Quiz: Google forms quiz on position and motion for 8th grade science.
Forces and Acceleration Quiz: Google forms quiz on forces and acceleration for 8th grade science.
Design Unit Summative Assessment: Final end of the unit assessment for IB design and scien

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Student Sample Work: Earth, Sun and Moon Formative Assessment

Lunar Phases Formative Assessment Questions:
Draw a model of the Earth-sun-moon system
Include the following in your model:
1. How the earth-sun-moon system causes the lunar phases

2. Each phase of the moon
3. Provide an explanation of your model

Example Group Assessment: