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Pare: Designing Scoring Rubrics for Your Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
What do you know about designing scoring rubrics for your classroom? This site features an article that details how and when to use rubrics in the assessment process. It also gives examples of rubrics used in classrooms.
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Pare: Implementing Performance Assessment in the Classroom

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Discover more about implementing performance assessment in your classroom when you visit this site. Teachers will find this information useful in their development of assessments in the classroom.
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Essay tagger.com: Common Core Rubric Creation Tool

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
The Common Core State Standards are broken down into manageable, assessable elements in order to make it easier to create real-world Common Core-aligned rubrics that will work in the classroom. Teachers can pick which elements they want...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: Wiggly Worms Earthworm Assessment Take Me Home!

For Teachers K - 1st
Students will identify and describe the major element of an earthworm's habitat by drawing a diagram and writing a sentence. Included in this instructional activity is an earthworm habitat worksheet, video of the instructional activity...
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Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory: 6+1 Traits

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
This site focuses on the 6+1 TraitTM Writing framework.
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What Is Rubistar? How to Make Rubrics

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This online tool is designed for teachers to create rubrics that correspond with project-based learning activities.
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John F. Kennedy Center

The Kennedy Center: Making Rain

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Your students will enjoy making their own rainstick while learning about poetry and expressing their feelings about rain. This three-part lesson gives step-by-step instructions, as well as an assessment rubric.
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement:portrait of a Hero

For Teachers K - 1st
Discussing real life heroes and heroines and viewing their pictures will help students learn about reading and writing biographies. A writing rubric assessment is included in this series of activities designed to teach about heroes and...
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CPALMS

Cpalms: A Piece of Cake

For Teachers K - 1st Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students will present their opinion through drawing, writing and speaking. Students will enjoy discussing their favorite animals, pizza and cake. Students will learn about...
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.
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Cengage Learning

Houghton Mifflin: Project Based Learning Space

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Houghton Mifflin has created a comprehensive resource for project-based learning. This site is full of ideas, explanations, projects, and more.