My grade two class participated in a real world assessment task found on the Alberta Assessment Consortium website. Their job was to design, create and present a magnetic toy to the president of a well known toy company. After the toys were created and our presentations were over we took them out for a trial run. We had grade one students play with the toys. Then we gave the grade one students money which they could use to "buy" their favorite toys. We tallied the results and found the most popular toys.Pictures and video of our project will be added soon.
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