Formative Assessment Probes: When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K-2 Concept Cartoons

Autor/in	Keeley, Page
Titel	Formative Assessment Probes: When Is the Next Full Moon? Using K-2 Concept Cartoons
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 50 (2013) 1, S.32-34 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Student Evaluation; Science Instruction; Astronomy; Cartoons; Scientific Concepts; Formative Evaluation; Concept Formation; Elementary School Science; Grade 1; Teaching Methods; Feedback (Response); Observation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulnote; Studentische Bewertung; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Astronomie; Zeichentrickfilm; Concept learning; Begriffsbildung; School year 01; 1. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 01; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Beobachtung
Abstract	This column focuses on promoting learning through assessment. This month's issue uses concept cartoons to assess students' ideas about the moon. Concept cartoons, formative assessment tools that reveal students' preconceptions and probe for conceptual understanding, have recently become popular in the United States, with teachers developing their own versions. "When Is the Next Full Moon?" is an elementary science probe with a concept cartoon format. This science probe provides an engaging, visual stimulus for eliciting students' ideas. The K-2 Earth and space science "Next Generation Science Standards" (NGSS) include the disciplinary core idea that patterns of the motion of the sun, moon, and stars in the sky can be observed, described, and predicted. "When Is the Next Full Moon?" is designed to address one component of this core idea-observing, describing, and predicting the monthly pattern of Moon phases. This science probe explores how the concept cartoon format helps students develop this important understanding and prepares them to meet the NGSS grade 1 performance expectation 1-ESS1-1. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10