Planning Assessment

As well as using basic checks for understanding throughout the lesson, a checklist with the following questions will be used to assess the students:

Is this information present on the glog presentation?
- Mass of the planet
- Material of the planet
- Color of the planet
- Size of the planet in relation to the earth and the rest of the solar system
- Moons
- Location in the solar system
- Distinguishing characteristics (rings, storms, etc.)
- One video
- One (or more) picture(s)

Goals and Objectives
If you remember from my earlier post, the objective for this lesson is "students will be able to describe the characteristics of one of the eight planets". This is assessed by the presence of lack of this information on their glog presentation.

Higher Order Thinking Skills
While it only addresses lower order thinking skills at this point, hopefully it will catapult students into future learning and thinking.

Meeting Individual Needs
Each student can create the presentation in a way that is easy and preferable to them. They may use all sorts of multimedia (or create their own) as a part of this presentation. The checklist assessment allows for some structure to the assignment, but leaves the specifics to the students.

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