Task: Answer questions about a monarch butterfly's life cycle. Assessment focus: insect life cycle.
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Task: Dictate what is observed from viewing a video clip of a monarch butterfly emerging from a chrysalis (answering a specific question), and sequence some photographs in the correct order. Assessment focus: observing and describing.
Task: Students differentiate between simple observations and inferences, and between observations that require measurement and those that do not.
Assessment focus: observing scientifically.