Assessments
The purpose of this assessment plan is to highlight key information that is being learned in this unit. For our Entry-Level assessment, we will begin the unit on Growth, Development, and Reproduction of Organisms by starting with a simple brain storm on what "growth and development" means to you. Students will take a few minutes to respond to this prompt in their daily journal. A short discussion in groups will generate ideas about what it might mean to other students.
Our Formative assessments include one quiz, one quick write, and two graphic organizers. Students will take a quiz based on the vocabulary words that are included in the guided notes at the beginning of the unit to prepare them on bigger concepts that we will be learning. A quick write will be given after our lecture on DNA, asking students to come up with ideas as to why DNA is important. Our two graphic organizers will be assigned in class after our mitosis lecture and our reproduction lecture, a flow chart and a Venn diagram, respectively. In our mitosis graphic organizer, students will be required to fill out a simple chart depicting the sequence of mitosis. The flow chart will be used later on at the end of our unit to aid students when creating their final project. In our reproduction graphic organizer, students will fill out a Venn diagram to distinguish similarities and differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Our Summative assessments an exam that will summarize what we have learned for this unit. We will also have a project that requires student to create a poster depicting all the steps for mitosis. Each step must be drawn out clearly using different colors distinguishing all structures. A description must also be included using key words used in the lecture. Please refer to the grading chart for this project below.
Our Formative assessments include one quiz, one quick write, and two graphic organizers. Students will take a quiz based on the vocabulary words that are included in the guided notes at the beginning of the unit to prepare them on bigger concepts that we will be learning. A quick write will be given after our lecture on DNA, asking students to come up with ideas as to why DNA is important. Our two graphic organizers will be assigned in class after our mitosis lecture and our reproduction lecture, a flow chart and a Venn diagram, respectively. In our mitosis graphic organizer, students will be required to fill out a simple chart depicting the sequence of mitosis. The flow chart will be used later on at the end of our unit to aid students when creating their final project. In our reproduction graphic organizer, students will fill out a Venn diagram to distinguish similarities and differences between sexual and asexual reproduction.
Our Summative assessments an exam that will summarize what we have learned for this unit. We will also have a project that requires student to create a poster depicting all the steps for mitosis. Each step must be drawn out clearly using different colors distinguishing all structures. A description must also be included using key words used in the lecture. Please refer to the grading chart for this project below.