What Are You Looking For In A Task?

Recently at the joint Crerar and Workman PLC, the Junior and Intermediate divisions had an open discussion of what they were looking for in a good task.  After a list was brainstormed, we then went back and highlighted what part of the achievement chart that key item would address. 

What ended up happening was that we came to the conclusion that even though the students are giving us one answer, that answer is rich and covers many different parts of the achievement chart.  Look at the picture below and see if some of the criteria that they came up with would be similar to the criteria that you would want in a task you give your students.