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How will a new resource Ministry reporting requirements?
Investigating Science and Technology includes an easy-to-use assessment framework to provide meaningful opportunities to gather assessment data.
Assessment FOR Learning
- Each unit and chapter starts with an informal oral diagnostic opportunity to activate prior knowledge, uncover misconceptions, and ensure that teaching is focused. Re-teaching strategies for content covered in previous grades is included in the Teacher Resource.
- Learning Checkpoints are strategically placed throughout development of new content to ensure comprehension.
- Check and Reflect appears after new concepts are introduced, to ensure understanding, before new skills and concepts are introduced.
- What to Look For / What to Do charts in each lesson plan in the Teacher Resource provides suggestions on how to move students’ learning forward.
- Unit and chapter review questions are labelled with the Achievement Chart categories.
- Starting Points focuses on skills development as per the new skills continuum
- Rubrics and checklists are available for all activities and labs in customizable format.
Assessment OF Learning
- Check and Reflect provides summative information at the end of each sub-section.
- Chapter Reviews provide a range of questions that provide insight into students’ abilities to apply their most recent learning.
- End-of-Unit includes:
- Unit Summary
- Unit Task
- Unit Review
- Extra Practice and Test Bank with 1500 editable entries.
- Additional chapter quizzes and unit tests in editable format are included in the Teacher Resource.
Assessment AS Learning
- Online Self Tests for every Check and Reflect, Chapter Review, and Unit Review engage students and support improved achievement.
- Metacognitive opportunities are provided at the lesson, chapter, and unit level.
- Self-assessment and peer-assessment opportunities provided throughout.
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