Michigan Science Teachers Association Conference 2020 (MSTA)

Come explore, experience and discuss embedded three-dimensional formative assessment tasks aligned with the middle school science unit “What Controls My Health?”. In this unit, students learn about the disciplinary core idea of gene-environment interaction and its effect on human health through the phenomenon of Type-2-diabetes. In our workshop, teachers will experience one of the lessons and associated assessment tasks in the unit as learners. Then together we’ll take a deep-dive into the process by which these tasks were created and how teachers might use the tasks, accompanying rubrics, and teachers’ own expertise to inform their teaching to support student learning.