Weather Patterns and the Instruments used to Measure Weather

Assessment Plan

Pre-assessment

Prior to implementation of this Learning Experience, the students will be given a pretest.  They will be told that it is not for a grade; it is just to see what areas we need to focus on.  The pretest will be a section off of their unit test.  This section will be eleven multiple choice questions asking about the different storms along with the different weather instruments and what they measure. 

Formative
            Throughout the lessons, the students will be asked to work in small groups and participate in whole class discussions. 
            For the small group portion of the lesson, the teacher will walk around to listen to how well students are working together along with how well they are filling in their particular section of the compare and contrast chart.  The teacher will pair/group kids to a specific weather pattern and ask the students to fill in characteristics of their given storm.  After a couple of minutes within their groups, they will then gather as a whole class to fill in the rest of the chart – given the fact they will need it as a study tool! 
            As for the whole group portion of the lesson, we will review the different instruments that are used to tell us about our different weather patterns.  The students will be given a worksheet that the teacher will fill out on the overhead.  We will discuss each instrument and write down what it measures, matching it to the correct picture. 

Summative     
The students will use the given worksheets as a study tool.  They will then be asked on their unit test to compare and contrast a hurricane and tornado, and match the appropriate weather instrument to what the given tool measures, along with 11 multiple choice questions.  To have a fair grading system, a rubric (Science Unit on Weather- shown on page 7) was made up for each of the portions of the test. 

 

 

Teacher Rubric

Attributes
4
3
2
1

Part A  - Multiple choice answers

___/ 11
1 point per question (11 pts total)

Venn – Diagram

 ____/3

*weighed .75*

 Compared and contrasted the  two given weather patterns listed – three or more important facts about each included along with two facts on how they are similar Compared and contrasted the  two given weather patterns listed – 2 important facts about each included along with only one fact on how they are similar Compared and contrasted the  two given weather patterns listed – 1 important fact about each included along with only one fact on how they are similar Compared and contrasted the  two given weather patterns listed – 1 important fact about each included with no similarities

Weather Instrument Match up

 ____/6
*weighed 1.5*

 The student matches all six(6) to five (5) of the weather instruments to the proper purpose The student matches four (4) to three (3) of the weather instruments to their proper purpose The student matches two (2) to one (1) of the weather instruments to their proper purpose The student matches none (0) of the weather instruments to their proper purpose

Short Answer --
 Question # 7 on Weather Instruments

____/2
*weighted .5*

 The student correctly identified the instrument and explained the purpose of each part and how it works properly The student correctly identified the weather instrument  in the picture  but confused the purposes of some part (how it worked) The student correctly identified the weather instrument in the picture  but was unable to explain how it works The student was unable to correctly identify the weather instrument in the picture and was not able to explain how it works

Total Points:

_______/ 22

 Comments:

 

Student Work Data

Third grade general education classroom:

  • 22 students
    • 11 girls
    • 11 boys
  • 3 students with an IEP
    • 1 with an in class aid; Miss Dawn
  • 22 participated within the entire unit
    • Only 20 students were used for the pre and the post test evaluation

***2 students were absent during the pre-test, therefore they were not counted in the overall count***

Pre and Post Data

 

 

Classification of student work from the summative assessment on the overall unit test

    • Distinguished Students – 100%-86%
    • Proficient Students –  82%-73%
    • Developing Students – 68% or below

    Level

    Number of Students

    % of students

    Distinguished

    14

    70%

    Proficient

    3

    15%

    Developing

    3

    15%

     

    Levels Graphed