Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Pre-assessment for Differentiation - Grade 10 Economics - Coggle Diagram
Pre-assessment for Differentiation
- Grade 10 Economics
the 5 students who answered most, including the most difficult, of the pre-assessment questions correctly
Think-pair-share activity involving application of knowledge- e.g. how opportunity cost would influence the decision-making of a car manufacturer
Assessment tracking: Including practice exam questions that involve higher-order thinking skills such as evaluation and analysis.
Mini-debate over the merits of the main types of economic systems - including free market, command/planned and mixed economies.
Pre-assessment
- At the beginning of the Unit "The basic economic problem" students will complete a multiple-choice test on Quizizz to assess their pre-understanding of concepts such as scarcity, opportunity cost, factors of production and economic systems.
Econ Pre-assessment quiz
the 5 students who appear to have limited knowledge about the topic, of which 3 are struggling with language and are at different reading levels and 2 students who have little to no comprehension of the the topic and need to be tested further for special needs
ELL Students
Students are given critical vocabulary list for the unit and undertake inquiry to formulate definitions
Students create Quizlet which is developed over the unit , including unit vocabulary list with image prompts
Tracking Assessment: Weekly Quizlet Test
Possible Special Needs
Students work together to create posters for each Factor of Production - teacher goes through exemplars and provides resources to help them
Students either verbally or through the use of drawings describe a choice that they had to make between competition choices in their own lives over the previous week. Teacher helps to make the connection to the concept of opportunity cost
EdPuzzle videos with simplified questions
the 12 students who have some knowledge about the topic as shown in their score, but need to develop higher order thinking skills
the $10 billion dollar debate - students are allocated a different sector of government and they prepare a presentation arguing for why their department needs more money, and as a class we then allocate a hypothetical $10 billion budget to each section of government (e.g. health, education, police, military, etc) - this helps to develop their critical thinking skills on the concepts of scarcity and opportunity cost
Assessment tracking: Weekly extension questions, practice exam questions and Quizlet tests
Ed Puzzle Activity on Opportunity Cost with questions of varying complexity
Think-pair-share where students work together to create a mindmap of develop their understanding of the key concepts for the unit including scarcity and choice.