ABSTRACT
This chapter looks at ways of having a focus on just one or two curricular areas and to consider what and how to assess the learning. The interdisciplinary nature of Storyline means that it might be possible to develop learning on a number of fronts simultaneously. Storyline affords opportunities to develop learning in the various types of talk: debates, presentations, collaborative group work and performance talk, to name just a few. A storyline provides these contexts so that, for example, skills in maths, language or technology might be employed in order to solve a problem. When the groups present their learning in a storyline using a challenge, such as Dragon's Den, it is easy for the teacher to draw up a checklist of the appropriate success criteria so that there is a common understanding of what it is that is being assessed.
