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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

• Comic Life - Create a comic strip of series of events that pertains to a country or culture that we are studying. • Prezi - Create a Prezi based on a chain of events in your country or culture that leads to a turning point. • Movie - Create a music video or a Public Service Announcement about issues in a country. • Skit - dress up and role play a skit or video tape your skit to create a podcast about important political figures or people from another country. • Online Blog - Blog about what you have learned about other countries and global diversity. || • Checking For Understanding - Clickers, Decision/Decisions, 3-2-1, Every Pupil Response, 4-3-2-1 scoring, Example/not Example. • Self: Checklist Peer: Positive Critique Teacher: Drafts, Cultivate Learning not Grades, Teacher Feedback || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal: Your task as a cartographer is to complete a map that spans every country in an area of the world, touching every capital city, using Google Earth to be used in the new season of Amazing Race.**
 * Role: You have been asked as a cartographer to create a route map for The Amazing Race**
 * Audience: The target audience is the creators of The Amazing Race, and other competing cartographers**
 * Situation: The contexts you find yourself in is taking an area of the world and effectively map out an area using Google Earth in order to obtain the selection of your course by the creators of The Amazing Race.**
 * Product/Presentation: You will create a presentation using the required Google earth in order to obtain the selection of your course by the creators of Amazing Race.**
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation): Google Earth, Presentation - Enthusiasm, Collaboration with peers, Context, Preparedness, Use of Technology, and Listen to Other Presentations.** ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * • Google Earth - Have the students map the countries in a section of the world using Google Earth as the tool for mapping.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • Pre-Assessment - Survey the kids ask them... What they Want to Know? How they Know it? Exaplin What you Want to Learn in the Class.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** Social Studies E: History "World Cultures" ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •The areas of the world that coincide with culture || •MLR

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 Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * •Culture || • Connections ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * As a popular cartographer you come home from a busy day of drawing maps to find a mysterious envelope in your usually empty mailbox. You open the formal looking letter to read a request by the creators of the Amazing Race. The letter reads “Hello __insert name here__ you are part of the lucky few cartographers who have been selected to compete in out Map Off for the new season of the Amazing Race. You will be given an area of the world and asked to map the area of the world following these parameters. One you will need to use Google Earth as the tool for mapping the course, this is the 21st century get to know the technology. Two you will need to touch every capital city in every country in order complete the course effectively. Three when presenting your course you need to do this presentation in a fun and engaging ways that really knocks the socks off the creators of The Amazing Race. Four you may work with a fellow cartographer for the completion of this course, and if you work in a mapping firm your partner has been sent this same letter. If you choose to accept this task you will be assessed on your enthusiasm, collaboration with in your said group, the actual content if you followed all the parameters, if you were prepared and the project is official, the use of the required Google Earth and the rest of the technology you choose to use, and if you are able to effectively gauge other cartographers work to assist in the selection of the final course. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •Google Earth || • Oral Presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • Use of Google Earth • Spelling/Capitalization • Color • Labels • Title || • Enthusiasm • Collaboration with Peers •Preparedness •Content • Use of Technology • Listen to other Projects ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * • Knowledge Gained
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**