Lesson Plan 4: Objective & Assessment

Learning Objective(s)
What do you want students to know, understand, or be able to do as a result of this lesson? Students will be introduced to and explore the concept of volume and capacity in a scientific inquiry. Students will discover the need for a standard unit of measuring volume and capacity

Evidence for assessment

Where will you look (product, performance, documentation you create, assessment is not about restating your objective. Its etc.) for signs of student about challenging yourself to really understand the I am looking for: objective and how it is operationalized in the lesson. learning? Theres Accuracy of the understanding that by figuring out how many cups it takes to fill up no point in rewriting this if it is just a What will you look for? restatement of the objective. the plastic cup, we are looking for the capacity of the cup. What are your criteria? Comment [S2]: But how will you look for this? (examples of statements or Accuracy of the understanding that when we are figuring out how much water is in a Do you want students to tell you? How will they actions that would show the cup, we are looking for its volume. show you they are associating this act with the particular kinds of notion of capacity? (your assessments ought to be Accuracy of the understanding that all groups had varied results, because the groups making similar consideration for each of these this understandings, learnings, were working with different-sized vials. is the area where youre talking about how youll &/or skills you are after?) know,it. so you want to use a verb other than Accuracy of being able to point out that we need a standard unit and why we need understand. They may be doing something, saying Inaccuracies so I can further explore and support individual students during the something, acting out something, writing something. Here is where you really challenge yourself to inquiry process.
identify evidence of learning)

Based on my objective, Im really looking at: Students exploring the concept of volume and capacity in a hands-on-inquiry Comment [S1]: But what does that mean? What is it that you are wanting them to process. Im also looking at their being able to hypothesize the need for a standard understand/discover/explore? What does it mean to unit when measuring volume and capacity. explore volume and capacity? This piece of your

My CTs, paraprofessional and I will record this by: Comment [S3]: But what will you be looking for? This is especially important when multiple Circulating around the room to make informal observations and record notes about people are recording information so that you all have students on the Assessment Chart, as needed. a clear picture of what it is that youre looking for Listening to student conversations during the inquiry process and whole-class and can think about questions that you might ask that will get at that information. discussion. We will listen for their usage and explanation of terms, volume and capacity, in their verbal language. Looking at student notes on their science notebooks. We will look for their usage and explanation of terms, volume and capacity, in their written language.