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=Stage 2 Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Role: You want to be a map maker for the well known Delorme Map Company. Audience: The target audience includes the hiring committee for Delorme Map and consumers who will purchase the newest Gazetteer in print. Situation: There's a job opening in the Gazetteer Department at the Delorme Map store and as part of the application process you need to create a map of directions to prove your qualifications. You must exhibit your expertise on how to read, interpret, and communicate information through the use of maps. You need to show how to be able to get from Point A to Point B by drawing a map and explaining the route through the use of written directions given a predetermined starting point and destination. Product/Presentation: You need to construct a map that includes street names, landmarks, and your physical address. Your map must contain the following essential elements: title, scale, key, compass rose, and date. After you will go online to do a MapQuest of your address and print it out. Then through the use of a venn diagram you'll compare and contrast your written directions, the map you drew, and the MapQuest document you printed to see which components you have in common. Finally you will create a podcast to simulate an in car navigational system by describing the directions from your school to your home via the quickest route. Standards (criteria from both rubrics): Podcast: Introduction, Content, Delivery, Technical Production Making a Map Accompanied with Written Directions and a Venn Diagram for Comparing and Contrasting Directions: Map Key, Labels-Accuracy, Scale, Map Symbols, Route Plan, Neatness of Color and Lines, Organization of Written Directions, Spelling and Capitalization, Venn Diagram Comparisons, Venn Diagram Contrasts || • map showing location of your school and your house, written directions explaining the route from your school to your house • venn diagram comparing/contrasting written directions and map versus online MapQuest directions || • reflect upon their podcast and the use of online tools in a journal entry • reflect upon their knowledge of map skills at the beginning of the unit as compared to the end of the unit in a journal entry || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form): **(T)** ||
 * Goal: Your goal is to understand and use maps so that you know they are important tools in your world.
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • observations
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * Other Evidence **(OE)** ||
 * • observations
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * Self-Assessment **(SA)** ||
 * • self-assess the map they constructed through the use of a checklist

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** • Locate and collect information for a specific purpose from sources including maps, photographs, charts, and graphs. • Use basic maps and globes to identify local and distant places and locations, directions (including N, S, E, and W), and basic, physical, environmental, and cultural features. ||
 * Understanding || Goal (MLR) ||
 * • Students will demonstrate knowledge of how to construct and analyze maps. Their maps will show the essential elements found on maps. || Social Studies: (Performance Indicator A, descriptor c and Performance Indicator D, descriptor c)

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * Big Idea || Big Idea ||
 * • Students must demonstrate their understanding that maps are important tools in their world today and recognize that they communicate information about many different things. || • Students must demonstrate their knowledge of essential map elements and how they interpret and analyze data from the maps they create. ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * //**Task Description:**// **(T)** ||
 * Students will construct a map showing how to get to their house from their school. Their map must include all essential map elements, landmarks, and the physical addresses of their home and school. In conjunction with their maps they will compose a written document with directions explaining their map. They will also go to MapQuest using the internet, plug in their information about their destinations, and print out the directions from their school to their house. The professional MapQuest directions will be compared to their own written directions. Using a venn diagram students will compare and contrast their directions versus the MapQuest directions. They will note the components they had in common along with the differences. Finally they will create a podcast to simulate an incar navigational system by reading the directions they created earlier in the project. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**// • maps accompanied by personal typed directions compiled into a class book titled Gilbert's Gazetteer, MapQuest directions, and venn diagrams will be displayed ||
 * Type II Product || Type of Presentation ||
 * • Garage Band for podcast || • podcast

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// • items are accurately labeled and located as described in the directions • all features on the map are drawn to scale and scale is clearly indicated • clearly understands the concept of map symbols and how to locate them • route went the most direct way from school to home • neatness of color and lines is depicted • written directions are well organized and all words are spelled and capitalized correctly • through the use of a venn diagram accurate comparisons and contrasts are made of both subjects || • catchy and clever introduction • creative and original content • well rehearsed, smooth delivery • includes jingles/music that enhance the production • recorded in a quiet environment without background noise and distractions • volume of voice, music, and effects enhance the production • podcast length keeps the audience interested and engaged ||
 * Product Criteria || Presentation Criteria ||
 * • map key is easy to find with a complete set of symbols
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**