Description:
This book breaks new ground, outlining a three-tiered system to assess process skills, not science content. To form the foundation of scientific methods and open the gateway to inquiry, the skills are identified in order of complexity: observing, communicating, estimating, measuring, collecting data, classifying, inferring, predicting and making modelsAfter providing succinct theoretical background and tidy definitions, the authors outline three performance tasks for each process skill. Levels of assessment reflect increasingly elaborate ways for students to represent their learning and thinking. Assessments are not linked to a particular curriculum or body of information, so they are "one size fits all" packages. Completion of each evaluation takes about 30 minutes.
Happily for busy teachers, the assessments come complete with student-ready black-line masters for recording data and detailed rubrics for evaluating results. Directions for administration are simple and clear, and the required materials are cheap and readily available. The time has come for a careful examination of student proficiency in science process skills, and this book provides a feasible way of doing just that.
Author:
Karen Ostlund and Sheryl MercierTopics Include:
- Victor mouse trap
- Kevlar high-tech string
- Pre-cut and pre-drilled balsa wood frame
- Low inertia DVD layer wheels
- DVD wheel adapters
- Brass tubing axles
- Thrust washers
- 12" lever arm
- Doc Fizzix's easy-wind, snag-free propulsion system
- Step-by-step plans with performance tips and tricks
Page Count : 84 pages.
*Kits require assembly, actual results will vary, glue and tools not included.
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