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.
Learning Activity Template: Data Analysis
Description When viewing a data source, use this template to analyze the data and look for patterns and conclusions. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Learning Activity Template: Question the Text
Description Books--and textbooks especially--have lots of features to help readers understand the text. Titles, headings, tables, and pictures are just some of the text features readers encounter. If you’re the kind of reader who just skips over an example or doesn’t look ahead at bolded text, you’re missing a lot of clues [...]
Student Guide: Informational Writing
Description This student-facing performance task guide describes the distinguishing characteristics of informational texts, provides examples and exemplars to analyze, and illustrates various text structures used for different purposes. Finally, this task guide provides a step-by-step process that students can use to write their own informational text. Author: Created by reDesign LLC [...]
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 should be included in the report and how to go about writing the report. Author: [...]
Student Guide: Informational Writing
Description The tools in this guide will help you to earn ratings for all of 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 you will be rated for this task. Author: [...]
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
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 would present to their peers and get feedback. Authors: Sandra Moumoutjis and [...]
Design Template: Continuum Builder
Description The spreadsheet contains a custom script that allows you to choose from all LWM competencies and skills to create an interdisciplinary continuum to use for a specific task. There are options to email the custom continuum to students and a way to export to PDF. Authors: Eliana Cohen from [...]
Learning Activity Guide: Assess Credibility of Sources
Description Today we have more information available to us than ever before. But, not all that information is created equal. Before you put your academic reputation on the line, it important to consider the credibility--the trustworthiness and believability--of the information you find. With the CRAAP Test you’ll be able to identify reliable [...]
Learning Activity Template: Text Annotation
Description It is often helpful to "code" the text as you read to enhance close reading. In other words, 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: THIEVES Template
Description Books--and textbooks especially--have lots of features to help readers understand the text. Titles, headings, tables, and pictures are just some of the text features readers encounter. If you’re the kind of reader who just skips over an example or doesn’t look ahead at bolded text, you’re missing a lot of clues [...]
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, technical writing is often in the form of a lab report. Author: Jim [...]
Studio Guide: Climate Change
Description In this studio, students explore multiple perspectives of climate change, then take a position based on the evidence, and work to persuade an audience to take action. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Learning Activity Guide: Cornell Notes
Note taking is an important skill for recording 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 [...]
Learning Activity Template: KWL Chart
Description Working with your peers and/or studio facilitator, complete the table below. The goal of this activity is to identify what we already know about the topic so that we can build upon it. After you complete the chart, identify what you think are your most important steps for answering your new [...]
Student Guide: Reading Journal
Description In this student-facing performance task guide, students use seven reading strategies to help them understand the book they choose to read. Author: Sydney Schaef
Student Guide: How to Develop a Model
Description This student-facing performance task guide describes the process for students selecting, building, and using a scientific model. Author: Sydney Schaef
Student Guide: Socratic Seminar
Description A socratic seminar is 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: It’s Alive! Well…Maybe
Description One thing that scientists do to make their work known is 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 will [...]
Learning Activity Template: One-Sentence Summaries
Description To help you focus on the most important information, it might be helpful to summarize the main ideas with one sentence. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017