Ms. Segui EL Class 2019

Ms. Segui EL Class 2019

1. Big Idea #1 Totally Tectonics

   • Description: Assessment based on Performing a Task
     • (6th grade EL class) Description: Students will be given the question to explain the three different kinds of plate boundaries in plate tectonics. They can do so verbally while drawing a picture or in writing. There will be a rubric of basic facts that they should know, that they need to express.

2. Big Idea #5 What does she look like?

   • Description: Assessment based on direct evidence
     • Application: Students will be tested to see if they can properly describe someone after being taught colors and facial features. They will be shown 5 different pictures and asked to describe each one. She has and He has. Then they will be asked to draw a picture of their mother and describe her.

3. Big Idea #3 Google Doodle

   • Description: Assessment based on construction and application (1-4 grade)
     • Application: Assessing writing skills: particularly capitalization, punctuation, and the correct use of the conjunction: because by creating a Google doodle project. After watching a video talking about Google’s contest they do every year, I give the kids the challenge to write a paragraph about what inspires them and to make a google doodle about it. Their final publishing of their Google doodle and their paragraph will be assessed.

4. Big Idea #2 Neither Nor Either Or

   • Description: Assessment based on real life. (6th grade EL class)
     • Application: Students will write a story about their future using correlative conjunctions. They will be given a list of conjunctions, skills, and told to draw or find a picture to represent their story. The story will be 3 paragraphs. It will be graded on a rubric with a checklist of the conjunctions. Also, if they met the requirement of providing a visual.

5. Big Idea #4 A school-wide contest!

   • Description: Assessment based on student-structuring the project.
     • Application: Going back to the Google doodle project. The students asked if we could have a school-wide EL contest. The project not only is an assessment but they helped set further motivating parameters about the rules of the contest and the prize.

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