Aspire Partnership with Aurora Public Schools

About the Aspire Project

The Aspire Project is a partnership between the University of Colorado Boulder School of Education and Aurora Public Schools, seeking to improve STEM education for all students through the development of a comprehensive approach to science assessment that also supports teacher professional learning. 

 

Science Tasks 

 (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.

 (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.

 (Phenomenon-Based Item Cluster)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Use a model to illustrate that cellular respiration is a chemical process whereby the bonds of food molecules and oxygen molecules are broken and the bonds in new compounds are formed resulting in a net transfer of energy.

Shrimp Ecospheres and (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

Phenomenon:  (Phenomenon-Based Item Cluster)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Develop a model to illustrate the role of photosynthesis and cellular respiration in the cycling of carbon among the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere.

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 (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics).

 (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics).

(Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.

(Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.

(Phenomenon-Based Item Clusters)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Develop a model to illustrate that the release or absorption of energy from a chemical reaction system depends upon the changes in total bond energy.

(Phenomenon-Based Item Clusters)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the transfer of thermal energy when two components of different temperature are combined within a closed system results in a more uniform energy distribution among the components in the system (second law of thermodynamics).

 (Formative Assessment)
NGSS Performance Expectation: :  Refine the design of a chemical system by specifying a change in conditions that would produce increased amounts of products at equilibrium.

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Skate Park  and (Formative Assessment)
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NGSS Performance Expectation:  : Develop and use models to illustrate that energy at the macroscopic scale can be accounted for as a combination of energy associated with the motions of particles (objects) and energy associated with the relative positions of particles (objects). 

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Publications / Presentations (Ongoing)

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