CCSS Reading Anchor Standards, 2012

CCSS Writing Anchor Standards, 2012

CCSS Speaking and Listening Anchor Standards, 2012

The National Visual Arts Standards, 1994

1)   Explore

Task 1: 
Explore Exercise

TASK 1

Reading Anchor Standard 2:  Determine central ideas or themes of a text* and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

TASK 1

Reading Anchor Standard 3:  Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text*.

* Within the Explore Exercise – “text” is interchangeable with “object”

2)   Describe

Task 2:
Challenge Idea Book

Task 3:
Presentation Board

Task 4:
Scenario Storyboard

Task 5:
Stakeholder Survey

TASK 2, 3, 4, 5

Writing Anchor Standard 7:  Conduct short as well as more sustained research projects based on focused questions, demonstrating understanding of the subject under investigation.

TASK 3, 4, 5

Speaking and Listening Anchor Standard 1:  Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.

TASK 2, 3, 4, 5

Visual Arts Standard 2:  Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

3)   Explain

Task 6:
Team Proposal

Task 7:
Plan of Action

TASK 6, 7

Writing Anchor Standard 6: Use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.

TASK 6

Speaking and Listening Anchor Standard 2:  Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.

TASK 6

Speaking and Listening Anchor Standard 3:  Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.

TASK 6, 7

Visual Arts Standard 2:  Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.

4)  Demonstrate

Task 8:
Data Analysis

Task 9:
Design Solution

Task 10:
Google Site Content

Task 11:
Site Production

Task 12:
1-3 Minute Video

TASK 9, 12

Reading Anchor Standard 2:  Determine central ideas or themes of a text* and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.

TASK 9, 12

Reading Anchor Standard 3:  Analyze how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the course of a text*.

* Within the Tasks 9 and 12, “text” is interchangeable with “design solution” and “video”

TASK 10

Writing Anchor Standard 4:  Produce clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

TASK 10, 12

Speaking and Listening Anchor Standard 4:  Present information, findings, and supporting evidence such that listeners can follow the line of reasoning and the organization, development, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.

TASK 8, 11, 12

Speaking and Listening Anchor Standard 5:  Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.

TASK 8, 9, 10, 11, 12

Visual Arts Standard 2:  Create artworks that use organizational principles and functions to solve specific visual arts problems.