Student Name: Evitt Nashed
Grade Contracted For __ X_A _____ B ____ C
| What concepts are you going to learn, or skills are you going to develop? | How will you learn the content/ develop the skill? | What evidence will you add to the portfolio to demonstrate your learning? | How will you and I assess the evidence of your learning/skills? |
| (30%) Oral communication 8A-C | Being able to present in a clear formal way without getting hesitant or nervous. | Photos will be interpreted into the portfolio of me being visually active and presenting work to researchers, my partners, teachers, etc. | you will visually see me achieving the goal of putting my thoughts out there and getting over my fear of presenting in front of people. |
| (20%) Problem solving: Implements solutions to address multiple contextual factors. 9C | This semester I will work hard on analyzing information I’ve received to develop a plan that can contribute to the gardens. | My papers and research will consist of change making solutions for certain problems the garden can have and how we can help. | My portfolio will show you the papers and research that will show my certain problem-solving methods I think would be useful for the gardens. |
| (20%) Ethical Reasoning: 3 A-B | Recognizing ethical issues in the garden and trying to resolve them. | Work will be put into my portfolio with how we can better the way the garden can be seen by visitors and how we can tell the garden’s story. | You will actively see the work and effort I put into the research of trying to solve ethical issues that the gardens can improve on for visitors. |
| (10%) Information Literacy: 5A Defines the scope of research questions effectively and selects information cogently to address them. | Identifying questions and answering them in a clear formal way. | My papers will show the question or problem I am trying to answer and implement information that is coherent with my problem. | You will see the work and effort I put into my papers by answering questions with the useful information that is needed. |
| (20%) Collaboration: 12B Facilitates collaborators’ contributions by building upon their contributions. | Working specifically with lab workers and researchers in the gardens and using their information to meet our goals. | Writing notes when I’m meeting with lab workers and using it for our research goals. | You will see the hard work I put into my research with useful information from lab workers or researchers from the gardens. |