UbD
What is the acronym for the Understanding by Design approach to curriculum development?
PAD
What is the acronym for Principled Assessment Design?
SIPS
What is the acronym for the project Stackable, Instructionally-embedded, Portable, Science assessments?
It makes leaves green
What is chlorophyll?
Approximately the sum of the number of neutrons and the number of protons
What is the weight of an atom?
Three
What is the number of stages in a UbD curriculum map?
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?
Nebraska
The hottest planet
What is Venus?
Water sticking to itself and water sticking to other stuff
What are cohesion and adhesion?
Second stage
In which UbD stage does one determine how learning will be assessed?
His construct-centered approach to validity evaluation is an important foundation for PAD
Who is Samuel Messick?
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?
Bats use it to get around and find prey
What is echolocation?
Matter is neither created nor destroyed
What is the law of conservation of matter?
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?
A 5th grade teacher who can develop, use, interpret, and evaluate assessment resources is demonstrating this
What is assessment literacy?
A major challenge that local education agencies face in providing equitable science education for all students
What is (thanks for your great thinking!)?
Carbon dioxide and methane are two examples of these, which trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet
What are greenhouse gases?
Mass divided by volume
What is density?
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!)?
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!)?
What are (thanks for your great ideas!)?
The type of rock formed when lava solidifies
What is igneous?
The mass production of algae that suffocates and limits sunlight to life below
What is an algal bloom?