Description
Offers sample lesson plans that promote performance-based learning throughout the content areas, plus rubrics, updated research, projects, and an expanded discussion of cooperative learning teams.
Table of Contents
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Cautionary Tale
1. Introduction to Performance Learning
Part 1. Basic Performances
2. Rotting Peels and Cores
3. Learning Brains and Music Strains
4. Making Sense of Stories
Part II. Intermediate Performances
5. “… To Form a More Perfect Classroom”
6. Cruising the Cortex: Sightseeing for Smarts
7. Patterning Neurons to Picture Patterns
Part III. Advanced Performances
8. Half-Life in World Life
9. The Heart-Smart Gourmet
10. A Special Holiday: AttaGram Day
Part IV. Designing Performance-Based Activities
11. Designing Performance Learning Activities
Reproducibles
Bibliography
Index