Assessment Plan

Purpose: Teach students to understand that the evaporation progress is very important that the earth cycles changes from one form to another. Explanation will be expressed that water can exist in three states-solid (ice), Liquid (water), and gas (water vapor or steam). Evaporation is the name given to the process by which a liquid, any liquid, changes to a gas. Explain to students that things don’t happen because its major and water does not disappear it changes its form from liquid to gas. The main purpose of the assessment plan is to have students use their knowledge of evaporation in order to apply it to a real world situation where they must explain how evaporation works and in which situations it would work better or worse.

Learning Outcome: 1. Students can explain the process of evaporation. Students must including the two states, water and gas, in their explanation.

2. Students can explain the process of evaporation. Students must including the two states, water and gas, in their explanation.

3. Students are able to create and label a water cycle of at least 5 steps.

 

Assessment Context: Students will identify the process by forming teams and have three cups of water provided by the teacher, students will fill the cups with one cup of water. The cups will be labeled cup 1, cup 2, and cup 3.  The cups will be labeled; the first will be placed outside, in a place that it will get sun all day long. Place your second cup outside, in a place where it gets shade for some of the day and sun for some of the day. The third cup must be placed outside somewhere that it will be in the shade for the entire duration of the day.

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Holistic Rubric:

5 Conducted Experiment Perfectly

 

Students kept cups in proper places

 

Students accurately measured water amounts

 

Data was recorded neatly

 

Graph accurately shows data

 

 

3 Conducted Experiment Well

 

Cups were almost always in proper places

 

Water was measured with minimal error

 

Data was recorded somewhat neatly

 

Graph may have some errors showing data

 

 

1 Conducted Experiment Poorly

 

Cups were not left in proper places

 

Measured water is inconsistent and fluctuates

 

Data was recorded sporadically

 

Graph does not represent data

 

 

5 Student has a Clear Understanding of Experiment and Evaporation

 

Student clearly explains how evaporation works and is used

 

Information from the project is used to support evidence of evaporation

 

Student is able to apply information about evaporation to desert and mountain question

 

 

3 Student has an Understanding of Experiment and Evaporation

 

Student explains evaporation but vaguely

 

Some information from the project is used to support evidence of evaporation

 

Student has trouble grasping the information from the project and applying it to the desert and mountain question

 

 

1 Student has a Poor Understanding of Experiment and Evaporation

 

Student does not seem to understand the process of evaporation

 

No information from the project was used to support evidence of evaporation

 

Student makes no connection between the project and the desert and mountain question

 

Testing Constraints:

 Students have one hour to have their rough draft wriiten.

Students are able to use their own personal notes on the weather cycle and evaporation

Students are able to work with their group to answer the questions

An additional 45 minutes will be given the following day to look over work for mistakes and errors

Testing Outcomes

Third grade social studies introduce students to the concept of their society and different communities. This is accomplished through a focus on a broad historical overview of human history and a specific view of local and community practices and responsibilities. Third grade social studies combine lessons from world history, geography, political science and economics. Classroom activities include obtaining and organizing information, discussing and analyzing current and community events and participating in fun related activities. Test given to challenge your knowledge of states, capitals and bodies of water to students gives them a outlook on life, because it is more to the world besides the state they reside in.

 

Student learning outcomes are statements that specify what students will know and be able to demonstrate when they have completed or participated in a project. Outcomes are expresed as skills, knowledge and value. Learning outcomes are measured by different types of assessments.

Subject: Social Studies

Grade: 3rd

It is very important for students to understand social studies. Three measurable learning outcomes at the elementary level for third grade are as follows:

1.  The student will be able to identify the location of each of the 50 states on a blank map.

 

2.  The student will be able to identify the capital of each of the 50 states.

3.  The student will be able to identify the bodies of water that surround the United States.


 

The three test items that support the outcomes are as follows:

1.       Students will be given a blank map and will write in the states.

 

2.       Students will be presented with a blank map with the states printed on the map and they will have to write in the capital for each state.

 

 

3.       Students will be presented with a picture of the United States and the bodies of water that surround it, cut outs of the bodies of water that surround the United States would have to be placed in the correct position. This test will have a 2 minute time limit.