Summative Assessment

This is a transfer task to give students an opportunity to use the three dimensions to make sense of an application of an electromagnet of their choice. This assessment is designed to elicit student ideas about forces at a distance as they design an experiment using the cause-effect language they have been practicing throughout this unit. This is meant to be a summative assessment task for the unit, and it gives you a grading opportunity. The task includes a scoring guide, Electromagnetic Inventions: Scoring Guidance.

Scoring guides are meant to highlight important ideas students should include in their responses. If students share these ideas elsewhere in the assessment, it is up to you to decide if that understanding is sufficiently demonstrated. Note that this assessment is full of student choice and includes a whole-class introduction component to make sure all students are on the same page and have access to ideas brainstormed by the whole class before moving forward with the individual assessment.