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to my usual 15 scheduled minutes. Coincidentally, this day was also Grandparents Day, which
worked in my advantage. I broke the 25 students up into 5 groups, with 5 students in each
group. I placed the students in each group with purpose, so that each group had at least 2
grandparents present, and a mixture of high and low students. The purpose of the task was to
use the preprinted research materials with a variety of facts and information about
Pennsylvania and people native to Pennsylvania, and create a poster to convince the audience
that Pennsylvania is the best state ever. We all pretended that we were travel agents and
wanted to convince our customers to travel to Pennsylvania, using the key facts, exciting palces
and important people to convince them. Each student was supposed to have a specific task,
choosing one of the following:
I included an instruction sheet for each group and a packet with a variety of information
that they could use and cut apart to put onto their poster. I used the following rubric to grade
each student:
Name:
Group Number:
Role for poster:
Performance
Assessment:
Pennsylvania
Posters
Participation
Student was
actively
engaged with
group. Created
poster.
Student was
partially
engaged with
group. Created
poster.
Student was
not engaged
with the group
and did not
create a poster.
Creativity
Student used
colors and
pictures on
poster.
Student
actively used
resources
provided by
teacher.
Student used
some color and
pictures on
poster.
Student use
bits and pieces
of the
resources,
rarely looking
at them.
Student stayed
on task about
80% of the
time provided.
Poster is
readable, with
labels.
Student was
partially
engaged with
group and/ or
created partial
poster.
Student used
mostly pencil
and little color.
Use of resources
On task
Neatness
Student stayed
on task 100%
of the time
provided.
Poster is neat
and organized,
with labels.
Student used a
few facts from
the resources,
but not many.
Student stayed
on task about
50% of the
time provided.
Poster is
readable.
No color or
creativity
involved on the
poster.
Student did not
use resources
at all.
In total, the students did very well on this project. In the 45 minutes they had to
complete the assignment, the grandparents and my cooperating teacher and I kept them on
task and many of the posters ended up turning out rather creatively. The majority of the
students did a poster and reported it just simply on the topic of Pennsylvania, but some took
the extra initiative and tried to convince the audience that Pennsylvania was the best place to
live.
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20/20
17/20
18/20
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0/20
20/20
19/20
15/20
20/20
20/20
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16/20
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20/20
20/20
13/20
19/20
20/20
14/20
19/20
16/20
15/20
0/20
18/20
Here are some examples of the Pennsylvania Posters that scored the
highest and were the most creative: