Assessments 
Types of Assessments !
Formative
Quick write
Interim/ Benchmark
Summative
Performance
Diagnostic
Exit ticket
End of unit exam
Cumulative work over an extended period such as a final project or creative portfolio.
Standardized tests
Common literacy assessment
A renactment or play
A project
Interactions and Ecosystems
Guiding :
Closing
Opening
How can you describe an ecosystem?
What is a way that you could describe an interaction?
Explain why interactions are important?
How can you identify a living element?
Explain the benefits of living and no living interaction?
Imagine what would happen if there were no interactions occurring in the ecosystems? How would that affect the living elements?
Definition:measure students' understanding of a subject area or skills base.
usually administered periodically during a course or school year
is a form of testing that requires students to perform a task rather than select an answer from a ready-made list.
Pre unit test
Initial Writing Prompt
to evaluate student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.
a wide variety of methods that teachers use to conduct in-process evaluations of student comprehension, learning needs, and academic progress during a lesson, unit, or course.