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=Stage 2 - Determine Acceptable Evidence.=

Situation:** The television QFZ has recently partnered with the Department of Education’s Mathematics division to make the EDQ. They are looking to esteemed mathematicians to help integrate math into current television shows. •Brochure (Microsoft): Create a brochure advertising the "appeals" (properties) of right triangles with your target audience being another shape. •Wiki: Create a wikispace that includes what you have learned about triangles. Include a digital artifact for each fact you list. || •Blog: find several examples of right triangles either online or in your every day life the post a blog reflecting on your discoveries. Were you surprised on the number of examples you found? Why or why not? •Journal: take the quiz at "@http://funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz14712910d0bc0.html" record your findings and list three things you could do to change your score were you to take it again. || =Assessment Task Blue Print=
 * **Performance Task (Summary in G.R.A.S.P.S. form):** **(T)** ||
 * **Goal:** Your 5-10 minute film that incorporates the properties of right triangles into a parody of a modern television show is to be selected as the pilot episode for the new TV station EDQ
 * Role:** You and your colleagues are doctors of Visual Media Mathematics just waiting to break into show business.
 * Audience: Former EDQ producers and the Department of Education media executives.
 * Product/Presentation:** iMovie
 * Standards:** Presentation: Collaboration with Peers, Preparedness/Story Board, Speaks Clearly, Flow, Time Limit, Transitions. Product: Content, Stays on Topic, Parody, Credits, Entertaining ||
 * Other Evidence (quizzes, test, prompts, observations, dialogues, work sample, etc.):**
 * **Other Evidence** **(OE)** ||
 * •Comic Life: Make a short epic that applies the Pythagorean Theorem to real life.
 * Student Self-Assessment and Reflection**
 * **Self-Assessment** **(SA)** ||
 * •Wiki/Discussion: participate in a discussion on the class wiki where students recognize and assess the benefits of right triangles in the real world.

//**What understandings/goals will be assessed through this task?**// **(G)** 1A ||
 * **Understanding** || **Goal (MLR)** ||
 * •How can the unique properties of right triangles help solve other geometric problems? || •Mathematics - C. Geometry

What criteria are implied in the standard(s) understanding(s) regardless of the task specifics? What qualities must student work demonstrate to signify that standards were met?
 * **Big Ideas** || **Big Ideas** ||
 * •Right Triangles || •Pythagorean Theorem ||

//**Through what authentic performance task will students demonstrate understandings?**//
 * **Task Description:** **(T)** ||
 * You and your colleges are doctors of Visual Media and Mathematics, fresh out of college and ready to make your break into show business. You have just received word that the popular television station QFZ has just recently partnered with the Department of Education's Mathematics division to create the new TV station, the EDQ. For their first order of business, the EDQ has done a study on television shows within the last 20 years and the results are devastating. There is enough math in modern broadcasting! The EDQ has decided to make a new show "Timmy the Talented Triangle" that discretely integrates triangles into television and they're opening up a contest for math doctors like YOU to direct the pilot episode! In order to prove your skills in the visual media field, you must create a five to ten minute film based on a pre-existing television show and parody the show while integrating right triangles in an entertaining manner. The judges are looking for a film that can include properties of the 45/45/90 triangle, the 30/60/90 triangle, and use the Pythagorean Theorem and Trigonometric Functions. In all, the judges will only select one team of mathematicians to be the directors so put your calculators down and put your directors' hats on... it's time to make your big break into show biz! ||

//**What student products/performances will provide evidence of desired understandings?**//
 * **Type II Product** || **Type of Presentation** ||
 * •iMovie || •Visual ||

//**By what criteria will student products/performances be evaluated?**// •Stays on Topic - 25% •Parody - 15% •Entertaining - 10% •Credits - 15% || •Collaboration with Peers - 25% •Speaks Clearly - 20% •Preparedness/Story Board - 20% •Flow - 15% •Time-Limit - 10% •Transitions - 10% ||
 * **Product Criteria** || **Presentation Criteria** ||
 * •Content - 35%
 * 2004 ASCD and Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe**