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Designing Effective Projects: Seasoning the School Year
Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan

Assessment Timeline
timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects and
complete tasks

After project work is completed

timeline
  • Questioning
  • K-W-L Chart
  • Journals

 
  • Student Graphs
  • Slideshow Checklist
  • Questioning
  • Newsletter Checklist
  • Class Books
  • Journals
  • Picture Match
  • Group Conferences
  • Questioning
  • Final Slideshow Checklist
  • Project Rubric
  • K-W-L Chart

Questioning is used throughout the unit to help students develop their higher-order thinking skills and process content, and begins with tapping prior knowledge using the Know-Wonder-Learn chart. Quality of journal entries and students’ individual contributions to graphs and class books help both teacher and students to monitor progress and understanding of content. Student knowledge of the seasons and their changes is assessed through the illustrations in individual tree observation journals (before they are given to the National Arbor Day Foundation), the picture match and the seasonal class books. Group conferences are used to help monitor progress and assess work. Use the newsletter checklist to assess students as they contribute to the newsletters. Use the slideshow checklist to document students’ completion and understanding of the criteria on those particular projects. Refer to the project rubric throughout to assess the project overall. Revisit the K-W-L chart to help assess what has been learned throughout the unit and offers recognition of student learning.

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