Assessment Options per Unit
 

I have found it very helpful to have two days set aside at the end of each unit for the purpose of final assessment of that unit.  All ongoing, performance, math box, and game assessments prior to these final two assessment days are considered practice and preparation for the “end game.” In the case of Grade 2 Unit 5 on geometric shapes, my two days were spent in a six project rotation form of assessment.
Linda Afdahl, Grade 2, Franklin Elem, Vigo

Here are additional assessments than the oral, slate, and written assessments from EM provided at the end of the unit, provided by Vigo teachers and Select Cadre Teachers:

 


You might also find the list of Assessment Options compiled by Sally Steele helpful. We welcome your ideas as well!

 

 

Kindergarten – Guidepost 4  

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Station 1 – Goal Writing #’s 0 – 1. (pg. 152)

 

    Assessment – Student receives a paper with boxes to write numbers out of sequence as the teacher recites orally.  After completion, the student turns the paper over and writes # 0-10 in sequence.

 

Station 2 – Counting forward from 0 – 70.

   Assessment – Teacher pulls each child to count on from the last number he/she counted to successfully.

 

Grade 1 – Unit 5

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Project 1: Goal 5a – Lesson 5.12

 

   Options for Individualizing = Solving “What’s My Rule?” Problems (Math Masters, p.71)

 

Project 2: Goal 5b – Lesson 5.3

 

   Ongoing Learning & Practice = Playing the Tens-and Ones Trading Game – Math             Journal p.102 

   Lesson 5.1  Options for Individualizing – Extra Practice = Playing the Digit Game

   Lesson 5.1  Teaching the Lesson = Numbers for Collections of Base 10 Blocks (Math

Journal 1, p. 97) 

 

Project 3: Goal 5c – Lesson 5.3

 

   Play Top-It using >, <, and = and magnetize animal posters (Math Masters p.61-65) and >,<, and = symbols.  Stick 2 animals to the board and have student supply the symbol.

  Lesson 5.6 enrichment – Math Masters 66,67

 

Project 4: Goal 5d

 

   Know + 1, + 0, doubles, and sums of 10 addition facts.

·        Domino Addition: Student will find missing addends and sums for dominoes.  (Math Masters 222)

 

Project 5:  Goal 5 e

 

   Solve addition and subtraction number stories.

·        Use animal weight cards to make and solve number stores.

Option: play animal weight top-it, finding and solving number stories. (animal weight cards found in Student Journal one, activity cards)

 

Grade 1 – Unit 7  (Back to top)

7a        Stand Up If

            Feely Bag

            Have a figure and describe it

7b        Draw a figure

7c        Draw a train (size, shape, and color)

7d        Make figure with straws

            Exit Slip – draw figure and label

7e        Fact Triangle –random draw – write 4 problems

            Fact Platter


 

Grade 2 - Unit 4  (Back to top)

 

4a—An altered version of the “Fishy” stories from Lesson 4.1 on Math Journal pages 80-82.
4b—An altered version of the “Temperature Changes” exercises on Math Journal pages 90-91.
4c—Slate Assessment #3 a-d and #4 a-d (my teacher’s aide assisted—but this could be the teacher station)
4d—An altered version of Written Assessment #5-8
4e—Project Wide Assessment-- Alternative Assessment---Play Addition Spin Lesson 4.2 using a mat with multiples of 10

 

Grade 2 - Unit 5  (Back to top)

 

Project 1 – Goal 5f

Project-wide assessment – Color a geometric pattern and trace polygons.  For this assessment, students traced at least one rhombus, triangle, trapezoid, and hexagon and labeled them accordingly.

 

Project 2 – Goal 5e – Lesson 5.4

Options for individualizing –

Project 3 – Goal 5a

 Scavenger Hunt for 3 – dimensional shapes (rectangular prisms, cylinders, pyramids, cones and spheres)  Students were asked to find three classroom (although they could search the entire school)  examples of each of the above listed 3 – dimensional shapes. 1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes were give for  those coming in first with 3 correct examples in each category.  Secondary prizes were given for 2 in each category, which was sufficient for a developing status.  

 

Project 4 – Goal 5c

Play “What’s My Attribute Rule?” Math Masters  pp.70, 74 and 75.

 

Project 5 – Goal 5b
Play Hunt and Seek for shapes, pictures, objects, etc. in the classroom (although they could search the entire school) that are symmetrical. 
Draw or list and explain the object in a Symmetry Booklet and with a pencil identify the object’s line of symmetry.  This activity is under “Options for Individualizing” in lesson 5.9 using magazines, which I believe I will try next year.

 

Project 6 – Slate Assessment # 1-6  a sampling that was revised for paper and pencil.

Written Assessment – Math Masters pages 426-427
 

In conjunction with this unit:

Both required various sizes of construction paper rectangles, squares, circles, and triangles.  Students folded and divided the shapes by virtue of their lines of symmetry. These concrete projects helped reinforce our geometric experiences.

Individual Profile of Progress:  Unit 4 and Unit 5

 

Grade 2– Unit 6  (Back to top)

 

Project 1 : Goal 6C - Reteaching 6.5

    p. 383, Build a number Math Masters 41- 41

 

Project 2: Goal 6D – Ballpark Estimation Station

   Need 2 dice. Red for tens, green for ones, Each player rolls 2 x.  Use ballpark estimation to add.

 

Project 3:  Goal 6E – Multiplication arrays.

   6.10 p. 409, Math Masters 120 – 121

 

Project 4:  Goal 6F – 2 Digit/3 addends.

   Play Double Digit Dice Duel.  Each play rolls 10’s red/1’s green dice 3 x to create problem.  Person with highest sum wins duel.  Record 6 problems to be grades.

 

Project 5:  Goal 6G – 3 addends – multiples of 10.

   lesson 6.1  p.358 – 359

 

Project 6: Goal 6H

   Use assessment CD to retrieve 3 addition/3 subtraction story problems.  Use Math Masters 108 to solve.  Write the number model.

 

Project 7: Goal 6I

   Add 3 one digit numbers mentally.  Lesson 6.1  Ongoing assessment.  Playing 3 Addends. P. 357 Math Masters 101.

 

Grade 2 – Unit 9 Measurement  (Back to top)

Station 1:  Goal 9h
Project-side assessment

Alternative Assessment Option pp. 686-687

Constructing a display of fish lengths

Station 2:  Goal 9g

Variation (CDRom) of Homelink 9.2 MM 358-359

Provide 5 boxes or other measurable examples

Have students give 2 equivalent measurements i.e., 2 feet or 24 inches

Also, slate assessment on #1 on an Exit Slip

Station 3:  Goal 9f  D  
Find perimeter

“Perimeter Hunt” and find the perimeter of the objects

Have 5 objects selected ahead:

1.      top of desk

2.      math journal

3.      pattern template

4.      front door (height)

5.      chalkboard  (height)

6.      floor

Station 4:  Goal 9e       
Find area concretely

Options for Individualizing 9.8 p. 671 – provide geoboards dot paper to record the findings
 

Station 5:  Goals 9b-9c

Measure to the nearest ½ in and ½ cm

Options for Individualizing TM 647

Math master p. 148

 

Station 6
Written assessment

No slate assessment except station #2 slate assessment which is on #1 Exit Slip

 

 

Grade 3 – Unit 6  (Back to top)

 

Project 1: Goal 6a

 

   Slate Assessment – show (draw) a line segment, a line, and a ray. + written assessment – prob. 7-9 , 12-14

 

Project 2: Goal 6b

 

   Bring in magazine or newspaper picture showing parallel and intersecting lines, line segments, and rays.  Glue different colored yarn onto each type of line.  Ex-blue yarn on line segments

 

Project 3: Goal 6c

 

   Written assessment #17 or journal pg. 142.  Slate assessment – used straws to show angles and rotations (pg. 414 manual)

 

Project 4: Goal 6d

 

   90 sec. Multiplication test  pg. 66 (math masters).

 

Project 5: Goal 6e

 

   Teacher makes laminated placemats with at least 10 angles drawn on the mat in various positions. (similar to angles drawn on math journals pg. 145)  Students use straws and twist ties to make models of the angles show on placemats.  Angles made are then sorted into 3 groups: right angles, greater than right angles, less than right angles.

OR

Use homelink 6.3 – Right angles Scavenger Hunt – Use this homelink pg., students will be looking for examples of right angles in the room instead of at home.

 

Project 6: Goal 6f

 

   Play “Touch and Match Quadrangles” T-edition pg. 406 – Math Masters pg.96   -  Do enrichment “Constructing a Cube” T-Edition pg. 440  Math Masters pg. 111

If additional assessment is needed:  Copy Math Masters pg. 110

Have students find 2-D & 3-D shapes in classroom.  Draw, label, and describe on exit slip.

 

Project 7: Goal 6g

 

   Reteaching pg. 428   Investigating Symmetry     Alterative Assessment Option – Create a bulletin board of line symmetry in magazine and newspaper articles. 

  

Grade 3 – Unit 8  (Back to top)


Project 1:  8a    Use Math Masters p. 131 – Sports Ball Diameters

Project 2:  8b   Written assessment #9 and #10 and Slate assessment #3, p. 636

Project 3:  8c    Written assessments #4 and #5 OR Have students on a placemat number line plot fractions.  Placemat should have whole numbers dispayed.

Project 4:  8d   Play “Equivalent Fraction Game” and have students record the pairs they have won.  Collect papers to see if they made correct matches.  (could record each other’s progress with a digital camera – student sits with matches in front and partner takes the picture)  OR

Do Name Collection Boxes

Project 5:  8e    Solve fraction number stories.  Do literature read-aloud (p. 600 TE), students generate a story problem, bind as a book for parent/student practice.

Project 6:  8f    Play “Equivalent Fraction Game:  OR Math Journal p. 183 OR Math Journal p. 185 Exploration A.  You could also generate your own.

 

Grade 4 - Unit 5  (Back to top)

 

Goal 5a – Play Exponent Ball (fifth grade game)

 

Goal 5b – 1.  How Much are a Million and a Billion – S.M.J. p. 135

2.      Extended Facts – Math Masters pg.74

 

Goal 5c – Slate: M.M.R. (5.11) p. 341

 

Goal 5d – Written: Math Masters  p. 83  Use lattice grids instead

 

Goal 5e – Teachers Math Journal p. 302, Math Masters 79

 

Goal 5f – Play Look and Find.  Provide newspapers for students.  Have them locate numbers in billions.  Cut out and then identify place values. 

 

Goal 5g – Play High Number Toss – Have students record their results using >,< signs

 

Goal 5h – Study Link 5.3

 

Grade 4 – Unit 6  (Back to top)
 

Project 1:  Goal 6h       Lesson 6.8, Part 3;  modify using straws

Project 2:  Goal 6i        Math Masters p. 95

Project 3:  Goal 6b       Study Link 6.2

Project 4:  Goal 6f        Angle Scavenger Hunt (digital camera)

 

Grade 5 – Unit 6  (Back to top)

 

Project 1 – Goal 6h

 

   Teacher selects a graph from the history or science text, and the student interprets and records the landmarks.  Landmarks: maximum, minimum, mode, range, median and mean.

 

Project 2 – Goal 6g

 

   Using the classrooms daily attendance a student will figure the equivalent fraction, decimal and percent for 5 days.

 

Project 3 – Goal 6f

 

   Play “Fraction Capture” Math Masters p. 87    Player records equivalent fractions.

 

Project 4 – Goal 6e

 

   Use part 3 of T.E.  p. 376 “Investigating how Sample Size Affects the Results of Chance Events”

 

Project 5 – Goal 6d

 

   Students play “Fraction Action, Fraction Fiction.  Students must show work on record sheet.   T.E. p. 571 or SRB

 

Project 6 – Goal 6c

 

   Use assessment CD to make a 10 problem written evaluation of this goal.

 

Project 7 – Goal 6b & 6a 

   Teacher presents data on the overhead of recent class scores for the students to construct a stem – and – leaf plot                                          

Grade 5  – Unit 9  (Back to top)
 

Project 1:  Goal 9a (D)     
Plot ordered pairs on a four quadrant grid

Plot Advanced Hidden Treasure

Project 2:  Goal 9b (D)     
Understand the concept of volume of a figure

Use Activity Sheet 7 from lesson 9.8 to have students “explore” volume

Have students write a short reflection on their findings

Project 3 Goal 9c (D)     
Use a formula to find the volume of a prism

Use CD assessment disc to create 3 problems to complete

Project 4:  Goal 9d (D/S)

Plot ordered pairs on a one quadrant coordinate grid

Give an object for students to draw on a grid and label the points for the ordered pair

Project 5:  Goal 9e (D/S)

Identify the base and height of triangles and parallelograms

Cut and paste MM pp. 127-128. You will also need MM p. 192

Project 6:  Goal 9f (S)      

Use a formula to find the area of triangles and parallelograms

Cut and paste MM pp. 127-128. You will also need MM p. 192

Project 7:  Goal 9g (S)     

Understand the concept of area of a figure

Create a garden.  Trace the perimeter in red then color in the area in green

Project 8:  Goal 9h (S)     

Use a formula to find the area of rectangles

Record the formula for perimeter and area of Project 7’s garden           

 


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