Lynette Hanus - 7476 Assessing Learning in Technology Enhanced

Instruction

Assignment 2: Assessment Plan

Summary Review of Cell Unit

Client Information: Christie Pinaud, Lee Middle School, Christie.pinaud@cowetaschools.net,
Certification # 460987

Performance Task Title: Summary Review of Cell Unit

Grade Level: Grade 7

Designer: Lynette Hanus

Performance Task Annotation: Students will summarize the facts of the unit and compile them
into a Kahoot! Game for themselves and other classmates to use to review the unit for the
summative exam.

Subject: Life Science

Approximate duration of the task: 2 class periods

Standard: S7L2. Students will describe the structure and function of cells, tissues, organs, and
organ systems. a. Explain that cells take in nutrients in order to grow and divide and to make
needed materials. b. Relate cell structures (cell membrane, nucleus, cytoplasm, chloroplasts,
lysosome and mitochondria) to basic cell functions. c. Explain that cells are organized into
tissues, tissues into organs, organs into systems, and systems into organisms. d. Explain that
tissues, organs, and organ systems serve the needs cells have for oxygen, food, and waste
removal.

National Standards

 Science: C. Structure and Function in living systems: Living systems at all levels of
organization demonstrate the complementary nature of structure and function. Important
levels of organization for structure and function include cells, organs, tissues, organ
systems, whole organisms, and ecosystems

 ISTE NETS - S: 3. Knowledge Constructor. 3c. Students curate information from digital
resources using a variety of tools and methods to create collections of artifacts that
demonstrate meaningful connections or conclusions.
Description and Teacher Directions:

1. Before beginning this lesson, the students have completed instruction on the Cell Unit.
Students will now need to review those concepts for a unit exam.

2. Teacher will begin the lesson by having students participate in a short Kahoot! game based on
our Behavior Matrix at Lee Middle School. This allows them to see how Kahoot! is played using
material they are already familiar with and hopefully get excited about playing it!.
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/75a31fa5-e7ce-4091-a096-49a16fa42314

3. Teacher will then lead a short classroom discussion about whether Kahoot! would be a fun
and effective way to study for the unit test. The students will then be instructed that they will
develop a Kahoot! Game that summarizes the material of the unit, including the parts of the cell
and their function and the differences between an animal and plant cell. This game can be used
for the student to study and also other students in the class.

4. Teacher will go through the rubric and an exemplar of what questions that will receive full
credit will look like. Teacher will specifically show an example of a question in which the
incorrect answers are not plausible to ensure student understanding of that part of the rubric.
When students have finished their Kahoot! Games a link to their game will be summited to the
teacher through Google Classroom.

5.. The students will then be broken into two groups based on student readiness. (see
Differentiation for details on grouping the students) Each group will receive specific
instructions for their project.

Group A: You will construct a Kahoot! Game to review the parts of the cell and their functions
and the differences between an animal and a plant cells.

Group B: You will construct a Kahoot! Game. For your questions you will write analogies for
each of the cell parts that demonstrate their functions and include questions to review the
differences between an animal and plant cell.
 Kahoot! Project Rubric

Decription– This formative rubric will describe the criteria for meeting the expectations of this
task so students will have a clear understanding of what is needed to successfully complete this
project.

Not Present: Present but does not Meets expectation:

0 Points meet expectation: 10 points
5 Points
Project includes Not Present Project includes title Project includes title
student name and title OR student name and student name
of Kahoot! Game
Project includes 10 0-2 Questions Present 3-9 Questions Present 10 or more questions
questions. present
Questions cover only 8-10 questions are on 7-1 questions are on a All questions are on
the material assigned a different concept different concept the concept assigned.
Questions are formed 5-10 of the questions 3-4 of the questions 0-2 of the questions
accurately and it is are unclear and it is are unclear and it is are unclear and it is
clear what the hard to determine hard to determine hard to determine
question is asking what they are asking what they are asking what they are asking
Question adequately 4 or more key 1-3 key concepts are Questions cover all of
cover the concept concepts are not not covered the material needed
assigned covered for assigned concept
Answers to the 4 or more answers are 1-3 answers are All answers are
questions asked are incorrect. incorrect. correct.
correct.
Multiple choice For 5-10 of the For 1-4 of the The incorrect answer
answer choices are questions the incorrect questions the incorrect choices for all
plausible. multiple choice multiple choice questions are
answer choices are answer choices are plausible.
obviously incorrect. obviously incorrect.
Grammar and spelling 6 or more errors in 3-5 errors in grammar 0-2 errors in grammar
are correct grammar or spelling or spelling or spelling
Link submitted for No link provided Link is provided but Link is provided and
assignment works does not work works
Project turned in on Project is more than 1 Project is 1-7 calendar Project is turned in on
time week late days late time.
Example of student work: https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/bb14651f-9f9b-4c21-a957-
bd0797ca5526

Teacher commentary: This is an example of a question (for group A) on identifying the parts of
the cell.
Teacher commentary: This is an example (for group A) of a question about the function of an
organelle of the cell.
Teacher commentary: This is an example of a question where the incorrect answer choices are
not plausible. This leaves the answer to be obvious and the correct answer would be chosen
because it is the only answer that is part of a cell.
Teacher Commentary: The next two are examples of an anlolgy that demonstrates the function
of an organelle. Here the cell is thought of as a city. You can think of your cell as anything, a
baseball team, an amusment park, a circus, a zoo, your choice.
Materials and Equipment

 Each student will use their Chromebook to play a Kahoot! in the introduction and to
create their Kahoot! Game
 Teacher computer and projector to facilitate the Kahoot game in the introduction and to
show exemplar
 Students will use their interactive notebooks to guide the material to be used in their
project.
 Student will utilize the formative Rubric to ensure their project meets expectations.
 Google classroom will be used to submit assignment.

21st Century Technology Used:

 Student Chromebooks
 Kahoot! website https://kahoot.com/
 Google Classroom
Differentiated Instruction: Students will be broken into two groups depending on student
readiness. Students that are struggling with the material will make a Kahoot! using straight
forward questioning. Students who formatively are showing they have a stronger understanding
of the material will need to synthesize/evaluate/create when they form analogies to demonstrate
the functions of the parts of the cells.

Web Resources: Kahoot! https://kahoot.com/, Google Classroom

Setting: This classroom is located at Lee Middle School in Sharpsburg GA, a suburb of Atlanta.
Students are seated two to a lab table. Work will be completed on individual Chromebooks in the
classroom. The classroom is cheerfully decorated with a frog theme and it is the student’s regular
science classroom.

Learners: This is a class of 27 students, 12 females and 15 males. It is a collaborative classroom

with 8 students with Individual Education Plans. Learns are between 12-14 years old. There are
no English language learners in the class.