Post Unit Assessment

Pacing Suggestions:

Day 1 - Complete class chart
Day 2 - Complete What Have You Learned about Changes? assessment
Day 3 - Complete Self-Assessment

Teacher Resources:
Tips	What Have You Learned About Changes? Adobe® Reader® (PDF) What Have You Learned About Changes? (Microsoft Word Format)

Essential & Unit Questions ¹

Benchmarks ²

Formative and Summative Assessments ³

Using Assessments to Monitor Student Learning

What kinds of changes can happen to solids and liquids?

4D(K-2)#2: Things can be done to materials to change some of their properties, but not all materials respond the same way to what is done to them.

11C(K-2)#1: Things change in some ways and stay the same in some ways.

What We Now Know about Solids, Liquids, and How They Change class chart (See Procedure Steps 1 & 2 on page 170 in Teacher’s Guide.)

What Have You Learned about Changes? summative assessment (teacher-generated sheet available under “Teacher Resources—Items to Print”)

Student Self-Assessment (See Additional Assessments on pages 173-174 in Teacher’s Guide and pages 176-177 for a copy of the self-assessment.)

Do the students know that properties of a material can change when something is done to it?
Do students know that not all materials will respond the same way when something is done to them?
Do students recognize that even when a change occurs, a material may retain some of its properties?

For conceptual benchmarks.
Bolded Sections indicate portion of benchmark addressed.
Unless noted as a Summative Assessment, the assessments are formative and should be used to guide teaching and learning.