Assessment
Interim/Benchmark: Benchmark and interim tests are used to measure students learning progress and check if they are on track to retain what they have learned and do well on tests in the future.
Performance: Instead of taking a test or answering questions, students must complete a task as part of a performance evaluation.
Diagnostic: To ascertain a student's strengths, limitations, and past misunderstandings, diagnostic exams are utilized as sorts of pre-assessments. Teachers can use this information to develop lessons that will best suit the needs of their students.
conducting a laboratory investigation
Making a map
STAAR
weekly spelling test
Summative: Summative assessment is an assessment administered at the end of an instructional unit in a course.
a midterm exam
a final project
Formative: The process of gathering evidence of student learning and providing feedback from the teacher is to adjust teaching strategies to improve instruction.
Venn Diagram: Have students compare and contrast a topic
using a Venn diagram.
Mini-whiteboards: Each student, or group of students, has a mini-whiteboard. As they work through problems, they can share them either with you as a class, or you can walk around the classroom and see their work.
HOT Opening Questions
Why do you think it is important to learn about plants life cycle?
What would be an example of a plant that produces fruit?
HOT Guiding Questions
How would we know if a plant is at the young plant or the adult stage of the plant?
How would know if a plant has gone through germination?
HOT Closing Questions
AT what stage of the plant's life cycle does reproduction happens?
What are the four common stages a plant's life cycle?
