Parallel Curriculum Unit: Seasons

Pre and Post Assessment

Circle the things that change when the seasons change.

level of understand regarding seasonal impact on environment and personal lives. Type of Assessment: Screening Targeted behaviors: Connections and Relationships.
Accommodations: *Pre-teach

Pre-assessment #1:

Purpose: To determine students

vocabulary on assessment.

*Read words *Use easier vocabulary in

directions

*For AID: make a heading for each

category (give a sheet with lines). that is effected by the seasons.

*on a notecard, draw or write a job

culturally and regionally familiar.

*Include pictures that are more

Pre-Assessment #2: Create

a poster and sort objects according to seasons.
knowledge about seasons.
Targeted Behaviors: Sorting, Recalling Purpose: To assess students general

and using previous knowledge and experience to problem solve.

Type of Assessment: Screening Accommodations: Provide seasons and months in written

form or exclude the months.

Explain pictures Ask leading questions, (When would

you take a picnic.)

Provide opportunity for explanation. For AID: Students write the words on a small paper, vs. giving them the words. Cultural accommodation: leave out holiday pictures. Added black color for the dark season

Write a short description about what they think causes the seasons to change.
Purpose: Assess knowledge about causes of seasons. Targeted behaviors: Connections and relationships and writing. Type of Assessment: Screening. Accommodations: Record description instead of writing. Draw a picture instead of writing. Give the student pictures and have them circle the items that affect the seasons.

Pre-Assessment #3:

Post Assessment:
Activity #1: Draw, color, and label, a poster with four sections

depicting what it looks like outside in each season. Include them in the picture doing something and/or an adult doing a job, and/or an animal doing something.

Purpose: To assess information learned and applied to their

perspective of their world.

Targeted Behaviors: apply

Type of Assessment: Summative

Accommodations: Find pictures in magazines from each season. Set up the poster the students created in the pre-assessment and have them make changes, as needed.

Post-Assessment Cont.
Activity #2: Repeat Pre-assessment #2

(Posters).
Purpose: compare previous results.
Targeted behaviors: Same as pre-assessment

#2.
Type of Assessment: Summative/Formative

Application as an administrator:
This took a lot of time, so I need to remember to

recognize it when I see it being done in the classroom.

I need to help teachers be more

efficientsomehow.
Promote collaboration among staff to help save

time.
Preserve/Create prep time by making meetings

efficient, teaching and training support staff, reducing busy work (useless paperwork).