The teacher creates a template for a Music Portfolio on a digital platform such as a slide deck. Each student is provided with a copy to edit and add their own work. Students are able to add text, images, and videos to their slide deck to add artifacts throughout the year. Students practice digital citizenship and evaluate their progress over time.

Following the steps of the iterative engineering design process, student teams use what they learned in the previous lessons and activity in this unit to research and choose materials for their model heart valves and test those materials to compare their properties to known properties of real heart valve tissues. Once testing is complete, they choose final materials and design and construct prototype valve models, then test them and evaluate their data. Based on their evaluations, students consider how they might redesign their models for improvement and then change some aspect of their models and retest aiming to design optimal heart valve models as solutions to the unit's overarching design challenge. They conclude by presenting for client review, in both verbal and written portfolio/report formats, summaries and descriptions of their final products with supporting data.

This is a long-term project that requires students to use essays they write for class to compile a portfolio. The portfolio requires the students to revise and review work they have already been graded on in order to continue to improve their writing skills. 

This plan will provide the instructor with an outline and resources to direct students through the formation of a student virtual performance portfolio. Students will use their virtual performance portfolio to collect both individual and ensemble performing artifacts throughout the year to evaluate and critique performances, formulate and justify personal responses to music, and monitor individual practice and progress toward goals.

This resource presents ideas for a senior scrapbook that students can build throughout the year as they complete various assignments, most of which are writing assignments. The resource presents language designed to be given to students that teachers can adjust as they pick and choose from the various assignments they would like to do.