Phase I - Planning Assessment

At the end of the lesson is a summative assessment. In this lesson plan our summative assessment is a mix of a performance assessment with the use of a rubric and a student's self evaluation. With the use of the rubric the overall presentation that the students, in their groups, will present is being graded. They will not be graded individually except through their self evaluation forms. This group presentation is not graded on speaking ability but rather their ability to follow the prompt and present their ideas. The rubric that will be used can be found here.


The self evaluation is a chance for the students to reflect on their own ability to participate in a group. It allows them to reflect on what they did well and what they might need improvement on. A space at the bottom will be added so that students can add comments about the project. This can range from Person A did not do any of the work to I felt I did a good job as the leader to I really liked learning about sharks. The self evaluation form looks like this.

An informal assessment will be used to gauge student's ability to use higher order thinking skills by having a class discussion on higher order thinking skill questions. These questions will be available on the board or overhead projector while the students are doing their projects so that they have direction and a chance to think about their answers.