4.+Assessments+and+Rubrics

Assessments and Rubrics


 * Summative Assessment Strategies: Summative assessment strategies are used to show the learning that has occurred throughout the entire project. The Summative Assessment will be a comprehensive overview of the students' understandings of the essential questions. The following strategies will be used for the summative assessment of this learning porject.
 * Summative Assessment Strategies:
 * Students will present the information that they have gathered to the class in a five minute presentation using a variety of methods for which they choose. The students can choose from the following choices for thier presentation:
 * Power Point Presntation
 * Skit
 * News Broad Cast
 * Game Show

Summative Assessment Rubric


 * Formative Assessment Strategies: Formative assessments assess learning as the learning is going on. A formative assessment is an assessment for learning. Formative assessments check for understanding of the lesson and serve as a guide for the teacher.
 * Formative Assessment Strategies:
 * Students will be interviewed and video recorded after they receive a letter from their pen pals. The video clip will be short, as they will be answering the basic questions that will summarize what they learned about their state/school pen pal. They will answer the questions on video clips that will be used in the completion of thier project (see summative assessment activities above). The students will be answering questions such as: what is the state bird? what does the flag look like? what is the weather/climate? etc. (see the data for the State and School Detectives assignments).

Although this is a formative assessment and no grade will be given, a rubric has been developed for the students to use as a guide.