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Week B: Teacher As Scholar-TEAM
Essential Question Scholar
Goal & Rubric (Weeks
5,8,11,14)
Goal: To come to a consensus
as a team about the answers to the essential questions for this cycle’s
sphere.
Assignment: Knowledge
is built through discussion and interaction with others. . The goal of
building your knowledge through answering the essential questions as a
team, as well as your individual "burning questions," can be accomplished
by using some technique for communicating your ideas. Answer the essential
questions as a team by following a protocol like this one:
- post the essential question;
- answer it;
- include supporting statements
for the answer; and
- cite evidence for your answer
and supporting statements.
For example:
Essential
Question: How does life depend on water?
Answer: Living things
need fresh water to survive. Survival depends on food, water, cleanliness,
temperature, control, and movement.
- Supporting Statement:
Fresh water is needed to grow many plants that we eat.
Evidence: Many
plants need water to grow. Water cycles between the various spheres
of the earth system through evaporation, condensation, precipitation,
and runoff that nourish the growth of plants. Course Outline Week
10, The Hydrosphere web site.
- Supporting
Statement: Water can help people and other living things stay
clean.
Evidence:
The Water Cycle determines when water is available for people to use
for bathing, cleaning, and cooking. Runoff can be used for many of
these things. If purified water is used, the runoff may be used to
water plants in the water cycle. Course Outline Week
10
- Supporting Statement:
Water helps living things stay cool.
Evidence:
Animals can stand in bodies of water to cool themselves. People can
spray water on themselves to keep cool. See Water
in the City for how water keeps us cool. See Canoe
Saskatchewan -contrary to common present expectations, land-locked
Saskatchewan with its North and South Saskatchewan Rivers was once
the super-highway of canoe transportation during the time of the fur
trade.
- Supporting Statement:
Water can be used as a way to move to other places by boat.
Evidence:
Within the water cycle, water forms rivers and streams that people
have used to move from one place to another easily. See
water transportation.
Remember to contribute
to the Teacher as Scholar Discussion.
Submit your team answers to
the essential questions with supporting statements and evidence to your
Portfolio for a grade and apply
the Rubric below.
Rubric
You and your facilitator will use the rubric below to gauge your team’s
success in answering the essential questions.
| Explanations:
Accurate, clear, detailed. |
4 Rating:
Accurate, logical, concise, detailed scientific thinking
using plain language. |
3 Rating:
Accurate, scientific paraphrased. |
2 Rating:
Accurate quotations or jargon. |
1 Rating:
Accurate. |
| Support:
Support for ideas, including ideas from experience, action research,
and reading. |
4 Rating:
Ideas are supported with evidence from experience,
action research, and reading. |
3 Rating:
Ideas are supported with experience. |
2 Rating:
Ideas are supportable. |
1 Rating:
Ideas are stated clearly. |
| Evidence:
Sources that establish the believability of the support. |
4 Rating:
Multiple sources, accurate, complimentary. |
3 Rating:
Multiple, accurate. |
2 Rating:
Core sources used. |
1 Rating:
Some sources, but not sufficient. |
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