The learners should document their work in station learning in a portfolio. For this purpose, everyone creates their own portfolio. All results are individual except for the exhibition materials, which are the same for all group members of a group.
A Portfolio can be used in a lots of diffirent ways, in this specific case, the portfolio collects the results of work on the tasks of the stations and accompanies the subsequent design task. Accordingly, it contains all notes, photos, materials and work results from the entire station learning.
It can be roughly structured like this:
- Cover sheet (name, name of group members, class, subject, date of submission)
- Table of contents (structured e.g. according to the stations)
- Work on the tasks of the three stations Light spectrum, Mirror and Colours (incl. self-correction after discussion)
- Documentation of the process of implementing the design task (incl. failures and „dead ends“)
- Reflection: What did you find easy and where were difficulties? What did you do wrong at the beginning but have now internalised?
- Source references, collected in a bibliography of illustrations and photos of researches
It is important that the portfolio also contains failures and corrected mistakes. In this way, one’s own learning and creative process can be traced. The learners have a free hand in designing the portfolio. It can be kept as a paper portfolio or, if necessary, digitally, especially in schools with tablet classes. Colours, fonts, font sizes, number of pictures or photos are to be choosen by the students.
Exhibition material
A special part of the portfolio is the „exhibition material“. The learners upload photos/videos of their installation once as a group of four to the digital exhibition „Lights on!“ and also create material to explain the intention of their work and the visual effects used in their work. Here the material only needs to be uploaded once, but it must be identified by name which learners have contributed.
Examples of a work for each phenomenon and the corresponding design of the materials can be viewed in the current version of the digital exhibition „Lights on!“ here. Simply scroll down the column to the respective work.
For the design of the portfolio and the exhibition materials, the learners will each receive a help page.
Evaluation
Finally, an examplary evaluation sheet for the portfolio is offered in the following. The points column is empty, so you can weight what you want to give and how many points you want to give. In the comments column, you can give the learner direct feedback on a specific assessment point, should something special have stood out. It would also be a good idea for both teachers to do the assessment together. How exactly, whether as first and second corrector or subject-wise, is up to you.
Here is the evaluation form for direct download:
Lights on! 