PTTeam+4

=Culminating Performance Task Planner=

//**GRASPS**// //A Real-World **Goal**// //A Meaningful **Role** for the Students// //Authentic (or simulated) Real-World **Audience**// //**Situation** that Involves Real-World Application// //Student-Generated Culmination **Products** and **Performances**// //Consensus-Driven Performance **Standards** (Criteria) for Judging Success//


 * **GRASPS** ||
 * **Goal:** You will be using your analytical skills to piece together information given to you in order to figure out the overall culture of the planet, Earth, that we have discovered. ||
 * **Role:** You are an experienced explorer from the planet M102. ||
 * **Audience:** You will be presenting your information to the government and your fellow citizens from planet M102. ||
 * **Situation**: A new galaxy, the Milky Way, has just been detected by our telescopes. In order to gauge if this new discovery should be considered a threat you will be asked to research some of information we have been able to acquire. ||
 * **Product/Performance:** You will work together with three fellow explorers to analyze the data from this planet. You will create a 4-8 minute news broadcast explaining your findings to the citizens of planet M102. Once you have done your broadcast former explorers and broadcasters of M102 will review your broadcast and evaluate the job that you did. ||
 * **Standards:** Teamwork, Content, Storyboard, Equipment Preparation, Research, Sources, Organization, Oral Presentation
 * Criteria from each rubric**
 * Presentation:** The productions created by the explorers will all be showcased at a press conference which will be attended by all explorers. After all productions have been presented explorers will come to a consensus about the threat level of this new-found nation.
 * Product:** Explorers will use the program Xtranormal, an Earth based program, in order to produce their news broadcast. ||

As an experienced explorer from the Planet M102 you have been chosen to uncover important information about our sister solar system the Milky Way's only planet with human organisms, Earth, and how it is run by focusing on how this galaxy impacts the culture of its inhabitants. You will gather information from uncovering classified files, calculating schematics, analyzing components of our sister solar system, and discussing the tales told by its citizens in order to understand how organisms from their galaxy differ from our own. Once you have finished your investigation of these documents you will create a news broadcast that showcases your findings. Your fellow citizens are counting on you to create a dependable profile of this new planet! Good luck! ||
 * ===Performance Task Overview=== ||