Student+Performance

__**Kindergarten**__
Students will be informally assessed throughout the five day unit. The teacher will note observations of the students as they make predictions and try them out by making objects move in different ways. The prediction and experience chart, which is designed to be completed by high ability students, will create a record of student learning for the whole class. Summative assessment will occur at the end of the unit when students complete the "I Can Make Things Move" worksheet. They will draw and write about ways that they can make objects move with pushes and pulls. Their work will be graded with a rubric. Students will earn points for accurately depicting both a push and a pull, writing words that are relevant to the pictures, and completing their work neatly.



__Fifth Grade__
The fifth grade students will be assessed in two different ways. Formative assessment will occur when the students meet with their teacher or library media specialist to have a conference about their work so far. They will discuss the information that they located as well as the validity of the sources they used. They will also make plans for the students' final products. Summative assessment will consist of the grading checklist that will give students points for both their process and their product. Not only will points be given for their comic and model, but they will also receive points for completing the note-taking worksheet and sources worksheet that were used when they began gathering information. To earn full credit for the comic, students must include information that answers three of the questions that guided their inquiry, use two pictures that are relevant to the force they are studying, and create a comic that is free of grammatical errors. They will earn credit for their physical model if it accurately depicts the force that they studied and is accompanied by a chart or paragraph explaining how the model is representative of the force.