OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 · Lesson 02
Lesson 02 · Check-in 4
MS-PS4-2MS-PS1-4Assessment opportunity · Formative assessment
From Teacher Edition
Facilitation guidance from the lesson plan — what to notice in student thinking and how to respond while teaching.
What to do
Self-documentation is a type of cultural formative assessment. This opportunity allows you insight into what students understand in terms of the phenomenon and allows aspects of students’ cultural lives to surface (source: http://stemteachingtools.org/sp/self-doc ). This is a good formative assessment opportunity to see how students make sense of the phenomenon as it applies to their lives.
Generate new questions for the DQB. Give students time to generate new questions about related phenomena, write them on sticky notes, and add them to the DQB.