Moving Students Through Assessment 1.1

In the video below, you can see how Lynn sets up her class for one of the last days students will be working on Part 1 of the NGSS 1.1 assessment for 6th grade. Prior to shooting this video, students had been working in groups of 4 to collaboratively complete a wiki project. Each student researched 3 organelles using articles provided on Haiku LMS. As a group, they decided on an analogy to represent the cell and the organelles and each student had to write three paragraphs explaining how their organelles related to the analogy.

Most students were finishing up the wiki project on this day in class. Lynn sets up her class for less than 5 minutes and then begins meeting with students to provide feedback and complete the rubrics. Although we want all kids to reach mastery before moving onto Part 2, it does take time to meet with all the groups. Sometimes, student may move forward as they wait for your feedback. In this instance, the IOS app game Cell Explorer allows students to continue their learning while waiting to meet with their teacher.