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Light and Optics

Performance Assessment

PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT FOCUS

Within the CELL, this Performance Assessment is designed to:

 

  • promote problem-solving skills by encouraging students to find appropriate solutions to a designated problem.
  • encourage planning and reasoning as students use their prior knowledge of absorption, transmission and reflection to successfully solve a problem.
  • assess students’ knowledge of the Law of Reflection to successfully solve the problem.
  • encourage students to apply their knowledge of absorption, transmission and reflection to design their solution to the problem.

Light and Optics: Performance Assessment

 

The design of this investigation does not include a focus on student work with tools from the Procedural Toolbox. 

Investigating Heat: Performance Assessment - Cognitive Tools

Light and Optics: Performance Assessment - Mathematics Concepts

 

  • problem-solving
  • angles in degrees
  • subtraction