Student-facing Performance Task Guides
Each studio culminates in a performance-based assessment or “Performance Task” that gives students the opportunity to demonstrate evidence of their new knowledge and skills. Check out these student-facing guides designed to help students build and practice key learning skills and strategies, developed in collaboration with reDesign.
Learning Activity Guides and Templates
Learning activities are purposeful tools that help students process and organize new information, practice new skills, and apply learning strategies. Check out our bank of learning activity guides and templates, developed in collaboration with reDesign.
Student-facing Studio Guides
Student-facing “Studio Guides” support students as they engage in a studio. Studio Guides help students identify where they are in the learning cycle, choose activities based on their needs and interests, and complete scaffolded “formative tasks” that help them build toward the culminating performance task. Check out our exemplar studio guides.
Design Template: Studio Map
Description Before teachers build their entire studio guide, it's important for them to get peer feedback. The studio map is designed to be completed in a workshop setting. Once a teacher's initial thoughts are in the template, they can present to their peers and get feedback. Authors: Sandra Moumoutjis and [...]
Design Template: Learning Activity Guide
Description This template will guide you through creating a student-facing learning activity guide. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Learning Activity Template: Data Analysis
Description Use this template to analyze a data source and look for patterns and conclusions. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Student Guide: Informational Writing
Description The tools in this guide will help you earn ratings for all the skills in the competency ELA.4 Writing Informational Texts. Read through the skills and indicators on the continuum for ELA.4 Writing Informational Texts so you understand how your teachers will rate your performance. Author: Jessica Thacher [...]
Student Guide: Narrative Writing
Description The tools in this guide will help you earn ratings for all the skills in the competency ELA.5 Writing Narratives. Read through the skills and indicators on the continuum for ELA.5 Writing Narratives so you understand how your teachers will rate your performance. Author: Jessica Thacher and Jim Novak [...]
Student Guide: Conducting Research
Description The tools in this guide will help you earn ratings for all the skills in the competency ELA.7 Conducting Research. Read through the skills and indicators on the continuum for ELA.7 Conducting Research so you understand how your teachers will rate this task. Author: Jessica Thacher [...]
Student Guide: Expressing Ideas
Description This guide will help prepare you to clearly and effectively express ideas—in written, oral, and other forms—for particular purposes and audiences, using diverse formats and settings to inform, persuade, and connect with others. It will also help you earn ratings for all the skills in the competency ELA.2 Expressing Ideas. Use [...]
Student Guide: Argumentative Writing
Description The tools in this guide will help you earn ratings for all the skills in the competency ELA.3 Writing Arguments. Read through the skills and indicators on the continuum for ELA.3 Writing Arguments so you understand how teachers will rate your writing. Author: Jessica Thatcher and Jim Novak [...]
Student Guide: Writing a Lab Report
Description This guide is to help you write a lab report for an investigation that you have designed and carried out. In this guide, you will learn a standard format for a lab report, what it should include, and how to write the report. Author: Jim Novak [...]
Student Guide: Designing a Scientific Investigation
Description Scientists use scientific investigation to explore our world and answer questions that we have. To carry out the investigation, scientists use a process called the scientific method. Authors: Jim Novak and Jessica Thacher
Student Guide: Building a Scientific Model
Description A model can be a physical representation—such as a drawing, 3D construction, simulation, or prototype—of an object, phenomenon, system, pattern, or process. Author: Jim Novak
Student Guide: Science Technical Writing
Description Technical writing is a form of communication used in many occupational fields. The role of technical writing is to share information in a professional setting. One common form of technical writing is instructional manuals. In science, students will practice technical writing in a lab report. Author: Jim Novak [...]
Student Guide: Socratic Seminar
Description A Socratic seminar is a formal discussion held by a small group, which is based on one or more texts that all group members have read. Author: Sydney Schaef
Studio Guide: The Spread of a Pathogen
Description In this studio, students will look at different pathogens and how they spread. This studio can help facilitate a science-focused conversation on the Coronavirus. Author: Jim Novak
Studio Guide: It’s Alive! Well…Maybe
Description One thing that scientists do to make their work known is to publish their work. By doing this, it lets other people know about the work that they are doing, and gives other people the opportunity to research further and complete their own work on the topic. In this studio, you [...]
Learning Activity Guide: Cornell Notes
Note taking is an important skill for recording information—and your response to that information—for later review. When you take notes, you actively process information as you read, listen, or watch. You make meaning as you ask questions, jot down reactions, and summarize. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 [...]
Learning Activity Template: One-Sentence Summaries
Description To help you focus on the most important information, it's helpful to summarize the main ideas in one sentence. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Learning Activity Template: Text Annotation
Description It is often helpful to "code" the text as you read to enhance close reading. This will help you remember important pieces of information from the text. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Learning Activity Template: Photo Drop
Description People often say, “a picture is worth a thousand words.” Photographs have the power to capture a moment and make us think, question, and feel. But because images constantly bombard us, we rarely take the time to look closely. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © [...]
Learning Activity Template: Cornell Notes
Description Note taking is an important skill for recording information—and your response to that information—for later review. When you take notes, you actively process information as you read, listen, or watch. You make meaning as you ask questions, jot down reactions, and summarize. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership [...]