What Makes a Shadow?

Assessment Schedule

Transactional writing 

LEVEL 2
Write instructions and recount events in authentic contexts. 

LEVEL 2
Write instructions and explanations, state facts and opinions, and recount events in a range of authentic contexts. 

LEVEL 3
Write instructions, explanations, and factual accounts, and express personal viewpoints, in a range of authentic contexts, sequencing ideas logically. 

Progress Indicators 

·	Deeper Features (see http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/eng/matrices/matrx_trans_deep_e.php)
·	Surface Features (see http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/eng/matrices/matrx_trnspoet_srfce_e.php)
·	The Writer - Context and Process (see http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/exemplars/eng/matrices/matrx_trnspoet_contxt_e.php)

What Next - asTTle (see http://www.tki.org.nz/r/assessment/what_next/view_e.php?area=writing&load_page=2bexplain)

Science

LEVEL 2
Explore trends and relationships found in easily observable physical phenomena 

Progress Indicator

Students will be able to:

·	Describe/explain how a person or an object must have been standing / placed to make a particular shadow outline at a particular time of day. 

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