Top 10 Project Review

The Top 10 Project showed exemplary levels in many areas, however the 3 that stood out to me are:

1. The authenticity of the project. The project had extremely high meaning amoungst the students, and by having the project online and having been viewed by so many people, the project definitely has an outside audience. 
2. The applied learning. The students used multiple-performance work organizing skills and applied new knowledge to a realistic situation.
3. Active Exploration. This is the area that stood out the most to me as exemplary. The students researched a lot about the animals involved in the project, as well as, ways of how to measure the truth in research.

Science CSOs

SC.O.4.1.1

explain how new discoveries lead to changes in scientific knowledge.

SC.O.4.1.4

demonstrate curiosity, initiative and creativity by developing questions that lead to investigations; designing simple experiments; and trusting observations of discoveries when trying new tasks and skills.

SC.O.4.1.6

support statements with facts found through research from various sources, including technology.

SC.O.4.1.7

use scientific instruments, technology and everyday materials to investigate the natural world.

SC.O.4.1.11 English CSOs

interpret data presented in a table, graph, or diagram and use it to answer questions and make decisions.

RLA.O.4.1.3

use pre-reading strategies to comprehend text (e.g., activating prior knowledge, predictions, questioning).

RLA.O.4.1.8

interpret and extend the ideas in literary and informational texts to summarize, determine story elements, skim and scan, determine cause and effect, compare and contrast, visualize, paraphrase, infer, sequence, determine fact and opinion, draw conclusions, analyze characterize and provide main idea and support details.

RLA.O.4.1.9

determine the author’s purpose in literary and informational texts and use supporting material to justify author’s intent: to persuade to entertain to inform to determine a specific viewpoint

RLA.O.4.1.13	judge the reliability or logic of informational texts.
RLA.O.4.1.14	select and use a variety of sources to gather information (e.g., dictionaries, encyclopedias, newspapers, informational texts, electronic resources).

RLA.O.4.1.16

use reading skills and strategies to understand a variety of information resources to support literacy learning (e.g., written directions, captions, electronic resources, labels, information texts).