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New Curriculum - Authentic Performance Task
Grade 2 English Language Arts and Literacy and Science
Life on Solara
Learning Outcomes
- Students explain how the organization of ideas and information within texts can support the purpose or meaning of messages.
- Students examine and apply a variety of processes to comprehend texts.
- Students examine and adjust listening and speaking to communicate effectively.
- Students investigate the growth and development of plants and animals and consider their relationship to humans.
Task Description
Students imagine they are Junior Researchers at the Space Exploration Company. They are studying Solara, a new planet. They explore its unique plants and animals, comparing them to Earth’s Alberta. The researchers are expected to investigate the life cycles of these species, culminating in a 3D model presentation to senior researchers.
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Details
Grade
- Grade Two
Subject
- English Language Arts and Literacy
- Science
Facts, Skills and Concepts
- Text Forms and Structure
- Organizing Ideas
- Text Features
- Comprehension
- Prediction
- Decode
- Summarizing
- Answering Questions
- Oral Language
- Listening and Speaking
- Enunciation
- Purpose
- Verbal and Non-Verbal Communication
- Audience
- Living Systems
- Plants
- Animals
- Life Cycle
Companion Task
Please Note**
The new curriculum tasks are still in draft and have not yet been piloted by teachers in the classroom. If you are interested in piloting a task and providing feedback to our performance task designers, please fill out the form below.