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What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
Other
Wiki Education: For Instructors
This site offers extensive resources for teachers for understanding how Wikipedia works and how to incorporate Wikipedia assignments into their teaching. Teachers can explore sample assignments and develop their own. Includes sample...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: Involving Students in Grading
An explanation of how to involve students in the grading process by working together to create a rubric and evaluate the papers of classmates according to that rubric.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Born on a Mountaintop: Davy Crockett, Tall Tales & History
These four lesson plans integrate the life of Davy Crockett and the tall tales that were created about him. Includes a printable rubric, lesson extensions, links, and much more!
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Investigating Integers
This lesson plan provides students with an opportunity to demonstrate their understanding of real-world integers and create a PowerPoint presentation. It contains an assessment rubric as well as ideas for grouping students and managing...
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Center for Educational Resources: Sky Paths
Lesson activities where students observe and describe the movements of objects in the sky in both daytime and nighttime. They learn how early cultures regarded the skies, and the stories they told about them. Students will be given the...
John F. Kennedy Center
The Kennedy Center: Chinese Calligraphy & Ink Painting
Students explore Chinese culture while creating unique pieces of calligraphy with watercolor paint. This two-part lesson plan includes an assessment rubric and a list of sources to use as a reference.
CPALMS
Cpalms: Understanding Key Details by Using Pancakes for Breakfast
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will be read Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie DePaola in order to understand and describe people, places, things and events in a text. They will create a book by drawing or...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Family Memoir: Getting Acquainted With Generations Before Us
This very detailed lesson plan includes readings, discussion questions, handouts, interactives and a rubric, all aimed at helping students construct a themed memoir while documenting the artistic process they used to create it.
TES Global
Tes: Leaflet Self Assessment to Support Holes by Louis Sachar
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students will create a leaflet that will persuade classmates to read the book Holes, a young adult book written by Louis Sachar. These rubric resources will used for peer assessments and self-assessments.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How to Make Something Simple, Hard
Middle schoolers will have completed a unit of forces and motion prior to the current unit of study on simple machines (lever, inclined plane, screw, wedge, pulley, wheel and axle). Students will review the functions and examples of...
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Pare: Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom
Discover more about implementing performance assessment in your classroom when you visit this site. Teachers will find this information useful in their development of assessments in the classroom.
California State University
A World Without Color and a World With Color
This is a great way for students to experience the impact of color on our world and how moods can be created through different hues. Lesson plan includes a grading rubric.