This student work was collected for educators to use for their own professional learning as part of the Making Sense of SCIENCE professional development courses.
The samples in this download are ideal to use with the first session of our Making Sense of Student Work protocol. They can also be used with many other protocols designed to support teachers looking collaboratively at student work.
This set includes work from students with high, medium, and low levels of understanding. They show an authentic variety of responses from a typical classroom. To protect students’ identities, their names have been removed, and each has been assigned an alias. Also included in this PDF is a blackline master of the task.
The “Energy for Hawks” task connects the concepts of energy and ecosystems and requires students to think about how organisms get the energy they need to survive. This task is part of the larger Energy Formative Assessment Task Bank. The full task bank and other task banks on different topics are available for download. Visit our website for more information and to purchase these items.
Energy is a crucial component in ecosystems. It is essential for students to understand how organisms get the energy they need to survive.
6th Grade Teacher
- Type: PDF
- Audience: For teachers and coaches
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