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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Presentation: Content (25%), Comprehension (25%), Preparedness (15%), Enthusiasm (15%), Vocabulary (15%), Stays on Topic (5%). Product (Wiki): Content (25%), Copyright (25%), Spelling and Grammar (20%), Content Accuracy (20%), Layout (5%), Fonts (5%). || •Blog: Write a blog entry about how geography shapes your culture. •Discussion board: Post your perspective on how Maine's unity/diversity is shaped by geography? •iMovie: Create a video containing a performance/presentation which discerns between the types of geography. •Comic: Create a comic that illustrates the difference in influences imposed by different types of geography. •Glogster: Depict several maps using Glogster, with annotations comparing regional-cultural homogeneity on different levels. When you are finished, post it to the class wiki. || • Self-assessment: Non-graded quizzes on geographical concepts and terminology. • Reflection: Write a blog entry about difficulties, surprises, etc. regarding the project. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Your goal is to create a wikispace promoting tourism for your town.
 * Role:** You are a member of your town's chamber of commerce.
 * Audience:** Your audience consists of your fellow chamber of commerce members.
 * Situation:** You are presenting your tourism wikispace to your fellow chamber of commerce members for review so that it may be accepted to represent the town.
 * Product/Presentation:** Your product will be the wikispace of geographically based tourism promotion.
 * Standards (Criteria from both rubrics - product and presentation):**
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * •Google Earth: Make a map which compares political borders and physical boundaries.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * • Pre-assessment: Class discussion about types of geography and other geographical concepts.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** D. Geography D2 Individual, Cultural, International, and Global Connections in Geography ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •Students will understand that there is a difference in the influences imposed by political vs. physical geography in regards to unity/diversity, which occur on many levels. || MLR: Social Studies

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 Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * •Geographic unity/diversity || •Types of geography and their influences ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * As a member of your hometown's chamber of commerce, you are tasked with creating a wikispace that will bring tourism to your area. The wikispace will include promotion of tourism of your town using geographic concepts of physical vs. political geography and their effects, as well as geographic unity and diversity. Your audience consists of your colleagues in the chamber of commerce, who will review your wikispace for approval--they will be critical, because this will represent the town in a highly visible fashion. In order to further increase commerce and tourism, you will interact with the chamber of commerce of another town in order to collaborate on tourism strategies, lodging/attraction packages, and shared information resources for people looking to visit your area. This discussion must take place using the discussion feature of your wikispace. ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •Wikispace || •Oral Presentation ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Copyright (25%) •Spelling and Grammar (20%) •Content accuracy (20%) •Layout (5%) •Fonts (5%) || •Comprehension (25%) •Content (25%) •Enthusiasm (15%) •Vocabulary (15%) •Preparedness (15%) •Stays on Topic (5%) ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •Content (25%)
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**