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Pre-Assessment for Differentiation Katrina Enoch M5U4A1 - Coggle Diagram
Pre-Assessment for Differentiation
Katrina Enoch M5U4A1
5 Students who answered most difficult pre-assessment questions
Activity 1
Students will first begin to solidify their clearly shown emerging understanding of macroeconomic foundations by watching an ACDC Economics video. (He is quite popular among the students.) They are to take notes on the key concepts.
https://youtu.be/BnrBRuoVefY
Activity 2
Students will be given exercises to complete from Reffronomics related to differentiating the different components of GDP
https://reffonomics.com/WBchapter8ConsumptionHunter.html
Activity 3
This activity will require students to briefly research the two main schools of economic thought for macroeconomics: laissez-faire and government interventionist. Students will read and discuss the pros and cons of each and specifically relate this to the economic realities brought about form the Covid-19 pandemic.
Students with Limited Knowledge
Students at different reading levels
Activity
Assigning Newslea text. Newslea is an online resource that partners with reliable news sources to adopt their texts and edit them to different lexile scores. The teacher can assign these texts and adjust the lexile score accordingly. Two texts would be an overview of key economic thinkers and an overview of US economic policy since WW2, as students will have previously taken US History in 10th grade and can make meaningful connections with other prior knowledge.
https://newsela.com/read/lib-presidents-economic-policy-WWII-2000/id/52663/?collection_id=2000000398
Students will read the article based on their lexile and answer the newslea quiz questions.
Students will then be asked to try to match the economic policies that the read about the the macroeconomic concepts (with definitions supplied).
Students who have little comprehension and may need to be tested for special needs
Students will watch a unit review video of their Basic Economic Concepts and their Microeconomics units. They will be given a guided note-taking worksheet to direct them to the concepts they need to pay close attention to (those that are expanded upon most in the microeconomic unit).
https://youtu.be/myeLTXMEhC4
Once completed, students will sit down with the teacher and go over their notes. They will be asked to predict how these concepts can be applied to the larger image of an economy.
Students who have some knowledge, but need to demonstrate higher order thinking skills
Activity 1
Analogy Game
Students will be given a certain set of "analogies" that underscore the connections between microeconomics and macroeconomics. They must match key microeconomic theories to their cousin theories in macroeconomics. This activity will more directly show the connections between the two units and serve to solidify their understanding.
Activity 2
GDP Triplet approach activity
Students will be broken up into three groups. Each group will be given figures to add up to compute GDP. Each figure will have a specific description. One group will get figures related solely to consumption, one group solely to income, the other group solely to value-added. Each group will add their figures and share their results. They should all be equal. They will then discuss the differences between the types of figures on their respective GDP lists. They should realize that all three are equal and that all three are approaches to calculating GDP.
Activity 3
Whereas the higher performing students watched the ACDC video first just to review what they already understand, this group will watch the video last and will have short questions to answer at the end to check their understanding.
https://youtu.be/BnrBRuoVefY
This assessment will be designed for the IB Economics class that I co-teach. We are starting our Macroeconomics unit, which requires application of fundamental concepts learned throughout our microeconomics unit.
As these are higher level students, I did find some of the differentiation activities challenging to carve out for this group!