Assessment

Lesson

Assessment

What’s All the Buzz About?

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can talk about pictures and text using new vocabulary words or phrases and use new vocabulary when answering questions or describing situations or objects by creating their art piece that they will share with the class. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can talk about pictures and text using new vocabulary words or phrases and use new vocabulary when answering questions or describing situations or objects by writing down their Buzz Words and their definitions.

What is a Bee?

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can ask questions about objects, organisms, and events and plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations by creating their Bee life cycle timeline and investing the Bee bodies afterwards. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can ask questions about objects, organisms, and events and plan and conduct a simple investigation and understand that different questions require different kinds of investigations by completing their Bee Anatomy questionnaire during their Bee investigation and research.

Life in the Hive

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can capitalize proper nouns, use commas and apostrophes appropriately, and spell words, using common spelling patterns by writing their Buzz Word definitions in their Glossaries. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can capitalize proper nouns, use commas and apostrophes appropriately, and spell words, using common spelling patterns by completing their Bee Fact Sheet.

Bee Unit – Mandi Skura – Mount Aloysius College

Bees in Their Environment

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can identify different adaptations. (e.g., growth of extra fur, deer adaptation due to habitat destruction) and discuss the ability of living things to adapt to the environment. (e. g., seasonal, environmental, man-made by making their own beehives to place around the school’s property. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can identify different adaptations. (e.g., growth of extra fur, deer adaptation due to habitat destruction) and discuss the ability of living things to adapt to the environment. (e. g., seasonal, environmental, man-made by completing an Exit Ticket at the end of the lesson.

Nectar, Pollen, and Honey

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can use senses to explore and learn from the environment and ask questions to understand something by myself observing them completing the pollinating activity and allowing them to ask questions during. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can use senses to explore and learn from the environment and ask questions to understand something by completing the Exit Ticket during the lesson conclusion.

Let’s Meet a Beekeeper!

Formative Assessment: the students will show that they can identify community jobs/hobbies relating to natural resources. (e. g., gardening, fishing, farming, hunting, water treatment) by being present during the Beekeeper’s presentation. Summative Assessment: the students will show that they can identify community jobs/hobbies relating to natural resources. (e. g., gardening, fishing, farming, hunting, water treatment) by writing and asking questions using their Buzz Words for the Beekeeper.

Bee Unit – Mandi Skura – Mount Aloysius College