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Planning and Preparing Portfolios
If you're intrigued by the idea of student portfolios for very young children, this resource offers suggestions and examples of how to use them effectively.
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Portfolio Trouble Shooting
This site features portfolio trouble-shooting strategies. Students and teachers will benefit from this clear and concise overview to help eliminate problems with their electronic portfolios.
abcteach
Abcteach: Goals/evaluation Forms for Portfolios
[Free Registration/Login Required] Portfolio evaluation sheets for students to fill out are offered in printable form from this site.
Department of Defense
Do Dea: Digital Photography: Module 5: Invention/creation [Pdf]
In this fifth module of a course on Digital Photography, students learn about how to take photographs that reflect a personal aesthetic, they learn how to use Surrealist techniques, they manipulate their images to create new material,...
Curated OER
All About Portfolios
If you're intrigued by the idea of student portfolios for very young children, this site offers suggestions and examples of how to use them effectively.
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: How Global Is Your Portfolio?
This engaging lesson challenges students to connect economics and geography as they investigate global companies in the stock market.
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Kathy Schrock: Assessment and Rubric Information
Kathy Schrock has gathered over forty rubric possibilities for assessing student work in all subject areas and grade levels. Some pages allow a teacher to create a custom rubric, as well.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Using Poetry to Teach Reading & Writing
Lesson plan makes use of weekly poems for students to read, discuss, and study. Students compile a poetry portfolio to use for further learning in reading and writing, as well as engaging in interactive activities such as creative poetry...
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: An I Pod Inspired Writing Lesson: Podcasting Science
Using "Science Times" at NewYorkTimes.com, learners will listen to podcasts to learn about and share science ideas that are currently in the news. By organizing and summarizing science thoughts, students will be able to effectively share...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Who Am I? What Have I Done? Where Am I Going?
This is a project-based lesson plan designed to guide students through the creation of a digital career portfolio. This lesson is only a guide based on the requirements from a Career Tech Student Organization. This is a Commerce and...
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Center for Game Science: Refraction
Use your knowledge of fractions, to save animals who have gotten stuck in space. Game practices the following concepts: equal partitioning, addition, multiplication, mixed numbers, improper fractions, and common denominators. Teacher can...
South Carolina Educational Television
South Carolina Etv Commission: Artopia
Artopia is utopia for artists and artist wannabes alike. Each gallery allows students to complete interactive activities, watch videos, read about artists, and practice being an art critic. The gallery areas are music, theater painting,...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Projectile Motion: Creating a Catapult
This activity is for 9th grade physical science students. It begins with an inquiry-based activity using a projectile motion computer simulation. It culminates with students building a catapult; applying and connecting science knowledge...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Job Interviewing 101
In this lesson students will explore the process of successfully searching for a job. This will include the development of forms/documents which can assist the successful job-seeker. The submission of a portfolio and "mock" job interview...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: College Planning for High School Freshmen
This lesson is designed to prepare high school freshmen for goal-setting and financial planning opportunities for college. Students will create a college planning portfolio. This lesson contains a financial aid component.
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Authentic Assessment Resources
You have just hit the jackpot for authentic assessment resources for professional development for teachers. Teachers will benefit from this comprehensive list of resources.
Writing Fix
Writing Fix: A Picture Book Writing Lesson: Planning a Fierce Wondering Story
After reading and discussing "Fierce Wondering" inspired by Ralph Fletcher's A Writer's Notebook: Unlocking the Writer within You, and a page from Amelia's Notebook by Marissa Moss, the teachers makes two class lists of interesting...