Tests and Essay

Test Items:

1.      Group the students in group of threes. Hand each group 3 different color papers with core, crust, and magma written on them (Yellow is Core, Green is Crust, Red is Magma.) Give the group 10 minutes to distribute their parts and practice the act. Then, the teacher will come around to assess the act.

2.      Label the magma cycle

CORE

CRUST

MAGMA

3.    Direction to a Dinah Zikes’ Foldable:
Grab the Left corner of your paper and fold it down to a triangle then unfold.
Grab the Right corner of your paper and fold it down to a triangle then unfold.
Take one of the folded lines and cut all the way up to the center. With that flap you can fold it under.
The rectangle part of the paper title it “the magma cycle.”
In each triangle the draw a part of the magma cycle.
Example:

 

Essay: My test items support my outcomes because it involves the students to be a part of what they are learning, it requires them to listen to the discussions, and shows their creativity and personalities. Putting them in groups helps them with their social and language skills. It also, shows how they work as a team. Acting out the magma cycle gives them a clear visual of how the magma cycle works and why it is a cycle. Giving them a picture of the magma cycle is another visual for them, but this time they have to match and label the picture. This will show if the students were listening to the discussion. Doing a foldable with students is always fun. They love color paper and using their hands. Giving them a blank paper and asking them to draw and label the magma cycle shows how engaged they were in the lesson. All of these items that I used tend to most of the students’ learning styles. Every student is different so they all comprehend differently. I like to incorporate as much hands on activities so that the students are engaged and when it comes to testing and assessments they can always go back and imagine how they learned the lesson.