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: 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 a reader who skips over an example or doesn’t look ahead at bolded text, you’re missing a lot of clues that can help [...]
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 a reader who skips over an example or doesn’t look ahead at bolded text, you’re missing a lot of clues that can help [...]
Student Guide: Reading Journal (elementary)
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 Adapted for Elementary by: Kate Hoffman, Reese Hoffman, and Addie Hoffman
Student Guide: Argumentative Writing
Description This student-facing performance task guide describes the distinguishing characteristics of argumentative texts, provides examples and exemplars to analyze, and offers a step-by-step process that students can use to write their own argument. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
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 [...]
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
Design Template: Studio Design Template with Project Plan
Description This studio design template includes a weekly project plan. Author: Ayris Sanders and Brianne Macnamara
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: Analyze and Interpret Data
Description In science, it is important to collect data and analyze data to draw conclusions about scientific claims. Author: Jim Novak
Learning Activity Template: I-Search Organizer
Description An I-Search is a way for you to begin the process of researching and writing about a topic that is of personal interest to you. As you complete this organizers, you’ll think about your questions and how you can find the information you need to answer them. Author: Created [...]
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 [...]
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 Guide: Inquiry Chart
Description To get the most out of your reading, listening, or watching, you’ll want to have strategies for comparing the information you find in multiple sources. The INQUIRY CHART allows you to record your questions and the answers you discover. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © [...]
Learning Activity Guide: Preview a Text
Description Previewing a text allows you to find the important clues that authors use to communicate meaning to their readers. It also help you zero in on where exactly you can find the information you need in a book, chapter, or article. When you spend a few minutes previewing a text, you’ll [...]
Learning Activity Template: Inquiry Chart
Description An INQUIRY CHART helps you to compare the information you find in multiple sources. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
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
Student Guide: Mathematical Problem-solving
Description This task guide explains each of the skills of Building 21's math competencies. It also illustrates key problem-solving strategies, and provides example math problem solutions that were approached using different strategies. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Studio Guide: Nature vs. Nurture
Description You hear it all the time: You will never become “this” or “that” because that is not who you were meant to be. But the question that often goes unanswered is how much of who you are actually is in your DNA? How much of what you do is from [...]
Student Guide: Writing a Science Lab Report
Description This student-facing performance task guide describes the process for writing a scientific lab report. It explains what a lab report is, offers exemplars to analyze, and provides a step-by-step guide. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017
Student Guide: Designing a Science Investigation
Description This student-facing performance task guide describes the process for framing a scientific question and designing an investigation to support the inquiry. Author: Created by reDesign LLC in partnership with B-21 © 2017