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FLORIDA - Understanding Florida's Emerging & Achieving Activity Design

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FLORIDA - Emerging & Achieving Activity Design

To better support student growth at all levels, we’re introducing two new types of activities. Both use the same images and examples, with the only difference being the level of text readability:

• Emerging – Text complexity on or below grade level
• Achieving – Text complexity on or above grade level

Why It Matters

• Make science (more) accessible to struggling readers and Level 1s and 2s, without ‘watering down’ the content. The emerging activity offers text complexity modifications (i.e. chunking of text, sentence structure/length)
• All activities are phenomena-based with various interactive elements.
• High-quality multimedia showcases a phenomenon and brings science concepts to life.

• PhET Interactive Simulations have been thoughtfully embedded into the library of activities to support the application of science and engineering practices (a.k.a. Nature of Science). These virtual science investigations allow students to explore, collect data, and make sense of the benchmark and Big Idea... and the directions are right there in the activity screens!

• Tuva Data Sets support visual data literacy, in which students can manipulate data into charts and graphs in real-time. Just like STEM professionals of today, students must organize and communicate trends, patterns, and their findings.

• Richer and expansive question types (drawing, modeling, written responses) have been incorporated to challenge students' depth of knowledge as well as provide additional ways to assess student comprehension.

Possible Next Steps:

How to Assign Activities and Assessments