Assessment: Create Your Own

Finishing up a unit or chapter in science or social studies? Check out this "Create Your Own Final Assessment" project on our Teachers Pay Teachers site!

Students have the option to create their own final project. Students will choose any topic from the studied chapter. The project options include:

• Comic Strip
• Magazine 
• Children's Book
• Power Point 
• Song 
• Tri-fold/Poster 
• Essay 

Rubrics are included in the package! Students can even present to the class, or you could have a gallery walk!

This assessment portion is different than the traditional test. Students are able to pick a project that they will enjoy, while also showing what they learned throughout the whole unit. Students will enjoy this form of an assessment much more than a test.

Lesson Plan & Scavenger Hunt: Landforms

This lesson was originally used with lesson 1.4 of "Social Studies Alive!" but can be used with any Social Studies program.  Scavenger Hunt materials can be located on our Teachers Pay Teachers Page!

Subject: Social Studies

Grade: 5^th

Title: Landforms Virtual Scavenger Hunt

Integration of Learning Outcomes

· Students will be able to define geographic terms for water and landforms by completing a graphic organizer.

· Students will be able to notice the differences between certain landforms and bodies of water by using an interactive Power Point.

· Students will be able to act out or draw geographic terms relating to water and landforms with a partner.

Standards

· 7.1.5.B: Describe and locate places and regions as defined by physical and human features.

· 7.2.5.A: Describe the characteristics of places and regions.

· E05.B-V.4: Vocabulary acquisition and use

· R5.A.1.1.1: Identify and/or interpret meaning of multiple-meaning words used in text.

Lesson Plan: TAG Peer Editing

Subject: Writing

Grade: 5th, can be adapted to other grade levels

Integration of Learning Outcomes: Students will be able to peer edit their writing pieces with a partner.

Standards

• 1.5.5.E: Revise writing to improve organization and word choice: check the logic, order of ideas, and precision of vocabulary.
• 1.6.5.A: Listen critically and respond to others in small and large group situations.
• Respond with grade level appropriate questions, ideas, information, or opinions.

Lesson Plan: Fall Poem

Subject: Writing

Grade: 5th (can be adapted for other grade levels)

Title:  Fall Poem

Integration of Learning Outcomes:

• Students will be able to write a short poem about fall.
• Students will be able to complete the steps of the writing process.

Standards

• 1.4.5.A: Write poems, multi-paragraph stories, and plays.

o   Include detailed descriptions of people, places, and things.

o   Include literary elements and devices.

• 1.5.5.F: Use grade appropriate conventions of language when writing and editing.

o   Spell common, frequently used words correctly.

o   Use capital letters correctly.

o   Punctuate correctly.

o   Use correct grammar and sentence formation.

• 1.5.5.D: Write with an understanding of style, using a variety of sentence structures and descriptive word choices (e.g., adjectives, nouns, adverbs, verbs) to create voice. Include specific details that convey meaning and set a tone. 

Lesson Plan & Presentation: Narrative Leads

The following presentation is a combination of a lesson plan and a Power Point presentation to display to the class. The presentation covers the different types of leads to use for narrative writing.

Lesson Plan: Adding & Subtracting Decimals

This lesson utilizes enVision Math, but ideas can be adapted for other texts.  Many of the hyperlinks will direct you to a place to download the resources used throughout this lesson. (Note: You must have ActivInspire downloaded to view the Promethean Board slides)

Subject: Math

Grade: 5th

Source: enVision Math 2.6 & 2.7 (2 day lesson)

Integration of Learning Outcomes:

· Students will be able to compute sums of decimals involving tenths, hundredths, and thousandths by making sense of problems and persevering in solving them, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, constructing viable arguments and critiquing other’s reasoning, looking for and making use of structure, and looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning. (enVision)

· Students will be able to compute differences of decimals involving tenths, hundredths, and thousandths by reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others, attending to precision, and looking for and making use of structure. (enVision)

Standards

· 5.NBT.7: Add and subtract decimals to hundredths, using strategies based on properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

· 5.NBT: Add and subtract decimals to hundredths using concrete models or drawings.

· M05.A-T.2.1: Use whole numbers and decimals to compute accurately (straight computation or word problem).

Lesson Plan: Problem Solving: Multi-Step Problems

This lesson utilizes enVision Math, but ideas can be adapted for other texts.  Many of the hyperlinks will direct you to a place to download the resources used throughout this lesson. (Note: You must have ActivInspire downloaded to view the Promethean Board slides)

Subject: Math

Grade: 5th

Source: enVision Math 2.8

Integration of Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to use multi-steps to solve a variety of problems by making sense of problems and persevering in solving them, reasoning abstractly and quantitatively, attending to precision, looking for and making use of structure, and looking for and expressing regularity in repeated reasoning.

• Students will be able to add and subtract decimals by solving word problems.

 Standards

• 5.NBT.7: Add and subtract decimals to hundredths; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

Anticipatory Set

· “Multi-step problems can be challenging. It is important to figure out what you know and what you need to know and to plan the steps necessary to solve the problem. Suppose you are given this problem:”

o   Julia wants to buy three pens at $1.99 each and two notebooks at $2.50 each. What is the total cost?

o   Students will list what they know, what they need to know, and the steps to solving the problem before solving the problem.

o   Drag the parts of the question into the appropriate column on the Promethean Board.

o   Students will write out the steps to solving the problem

§  Find the cost of three pens at $1.99 each. ($5.97)

§  Find the cost of two notebooks at $2.50 each. ($5.00)

§  Find the total cost. ($10.97)

o   Students will solve problem on their whiteboards.