UbD
Assessment
SIPS
5th Grade Science
8th Grade Science
100

UbD

What is the acronym for the Understanding by Design approach to curriculum development?

100

PAD

What is the acronym for Principled Assessment Design?

100

SIPS

What is the acronym for the project Stackable, Instructionally-embedded, Portable, Science assessments?

100

It makes leaves green

What is chlorophyll?

100

Approximately the sum of the number of neutrons and the number of protons

What is the weight of an atom?

200

Three

What is the number of stages in a UbD curriculum map?

200

Domain Analysis

What is the first phase of the PAD approach used in our SIPS project in which we clearly define the measurement and instructional targets?

200

Nebraska

Which state is the lead SIPS state and the grantee for the federal grant that supports SIPS?
200

The hottest planet

What is Venus?

200

Water sticking to itself and water sticking to other stuff

What are cohesion and adhesion?

300

Second stage

In which UbD stage does one determine how learning will be assessed?

300

His construct-centered approach to validity evaluation is an important foundation for PAD 

Who is Samuel Messick?

300

A core SIPS principle regarding fair and accessible resources for all students that we use Universal Design, among other approaches, to help us achieve

What is equity?

300

Bats use it to get around and find prey

What is echolocation?

300

Matter is neither created nor destroyed

What is the law of conservation of matter?

400

These statements summarize important ideas and core processes that are central to a discipline and have lasting value beyond the classroom 

What are enduring understandings?

400

A 5th grade teacher who can develop, use, interpret, and evaluate assessment resources is demonstrating this

What is assessment literacy?

400

A major challenge that local education agencies face in providing equitable science education for all students

What is (thanks for your great thinking!)?

400

Carbon dioxide and methane are two examples of these, which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet

What are greenhouse gases?

400

Mass divided by volume

What is density? 

500

Ways SIPS instructional resources can best support the range of learning environments and methods of instructional delivery experienced as a result of the pandemic

What is (thanks for your great ideas!)?

500

Ways SIPS assessment resources can best support the range of learning environments students experience as a result of the pandemic

What is (thanks for your great ideas!)?

500
Ways SIPS can best support state and local educators prepare and offer coherent systems of science instruction and assessment

What are (thanks for your great ideas!)?

500

The type of rock formed when lava solidifies

What is igneous?

500

The mass production of algae that suffocates and limits sunlight to life below

What is an algal bloom?