Sample Prompts

ELEMENTARY

Prompt:

→ Write a 60 minute lesson plan for an elementary 4th grade class including a rich mathematical task for area and perimeter that uses the Standard 4.MD.3 from the California Common Core State Standards and include differentiated options for struggling learning, on grade level, and high achievers. Add a depth of knowledge at a level 2 or 3. Include a label and sort activity at the beginning of the lesson. Include cognitively guided instruction practices in the lesson.

Assessment

→ Create an assessment based on this lesson plan that requires students to use the formula for area and perimeter and  communicate their understanding of why the formulas work.

Create 3 story problems that are multi-step where students show their work, and also align it with CAASPP. Differentiate the assessment and provide an answer key. Add a depth of knowledge at a level 2 or 3.

Middle School 8th grade

MIDDLE SCHOOL:

Prompt:

→ Write a 60 minute lesson plan for an 8th grade class that uses the NGSS Standard  MS-PS3-5. In the lesson, include a collaborative activity about roller coasters where students have to create an experiment that includes identifying variables, tools, measurements, and data analysis to support the hypothesis.  Include differentiated options for struggling learning, on grade level, and high achievers.  

Assessment 

→ Create an assessment based on this lesson (what would an assessment look like for this lesson?)

Create an assessment from this lesson where students have to create a data table that aligns with the CER framework.  Also have students demonstrate their experiment and discuss the strengths and weaknesses of their creation.

High School 11th grade

HIGH SCHOOL

Write a lesson plan for 11th grade English based on the standard W.11–12.1a about the Book the Great Gatsby and the theme of the American Dream.  Provide 3 different writing prompts for students to pick from. Also include instructions that explain how students can write a claim, support it with evidence, and offer guidance for peer review and include strategies for QTEL and for Tier 1 Instruction for RTI.

Follow up prompt:

Add elements to this lesson that incorporates US history 11th grade framework standards for CA specific to the American Dream ambition, aspiration, and forgotten history.

Assessment

Create 3 different writing prompts based off of this lesson and create a rubric for scoring criterion.

Include something for students who need additional support according to Response to Intervention for Tier 2 and 3 instruction.

Alternative

Write 3 prompts from the Great Gatsby that allow for students to make personal connections to one of the ideas in the book such as…

Ambition

Aspiration

Isolation and loneliness

Illusion vs reality

Social class and inequality

Lost Years

Love and desire

Mortality and the Passage of Time

Prompt History