Instructions Handout

Summative Performance Task, Grade 6 Social Studies

Mini Unit:

Voter Participation

Teacher:

Laurel Nast

Knowledge for You to Use

To complete this summative performance task project you will use what you have
learned about voting, voter registration, and voter behaviour during the lessons in
this mini-unit. That will include what you learned during the University of Lethbridge
field trip, particularly the responses that visitors to the voting information booths
gave to you in response to your questions.

What you are to Accomplish

You will complete a project in which you will do all of the following four things:
1. List at least three things you learned about voting during the University of
Lethbridge field trip and our classes prior to and after the field trip;
2. Discuss your mind map, specifically at least four pieces of information that
booth visitors provided to you in response to your questions;
3. Share how what you learned during the mini-unit has affected your personal
view of voting, as a future voter; and
4. List at least one reason why voting is important.

Product you are to Create

You will present your project in one of the following four ways:
1. Written report of at least two pages in length, double-spaced and printed off
it will be submitted in hard copy form;
2. Poster, using at least one large piece of poster board, filled;
3. iMovie of at least three minutes in length; or

4. Oral presentation of at least three minutes in length. This can either be

presented to the entire class or to the teacher privately.

Materials to be used
A.

Notes you made during class, if any;

B.

Notes you made during your interviews of voting information booth visitors,
on the field trip. These notes were either in written or iMovie form; and

C.

Depending upon how you choose to present your project, you will also use
some the following materials, all of which will be available in the classroom as
of next class:
1. Handwritten report: Classroom laptop containing a word processing
program, and a printer;
2. Poster: Large piece of poster board, glue stick, scotch tape, sticky tack,
white paper, construction paper, ruler, scissors, writing/drawing/colouring
and/or painting implements;
3. iMovie: Classroom iPad containing iMovie software, headphones, and a
microphone;
4. Oral presentation: Script or notes (not required, but I recommend it in
order to ensure that you cover everything), and lectern, whiteboard,
whiteboard markers, table, and/or chair, should you wish to use any of
these items.

Due Date
Your project is due two weeks from today, at noon on [teacher would insert actual
day here, if this was a real project].

Help Allowed
You will work alone on this project. However should you wish, you may receive
formative peer feedback from a partner as you are working on the project. Your
partner for this feedback would be the person with whom you prepared your mind
map during Lesson Three.
You may seek formative peer feedback during the class time I will provide for you to
work on this project over the next two weeks. I will provide to you approximately 15

to 20 minutes per class during each of our thrice weekly classes, for a total of 90
120 minutes of class time.
You should be able to finish this project during your Social Studies class
time. If you apply yourselves, you should not have to work on this project at home.
I will be available to answer any questions you might have as you work on the
project. You may talk to me during class time, outside of class time during school
hours, and via email to my school email address.