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Assessment Piece
Dr. Jay Wilson, Monday February 6th, 2017
Justification and Reflection:
For my assessment creation, I chose to develop an assessment OF learning
model that emulated the most important aspects of the science classroom. The
above laboratory inquiry outline was designed to; first engage students prior
Chemistry unit in Physical Science 20, students will be exposed most importantly
to the WHIMIS safety system that they must adhere to while practising their skills in
a laboratory environment. That being said two of these five stages were specifically
nature of the chemicals and apparatus involved. This is done to give students a
look at all five types of reactions while at the same time developing their
understanding that chemical reactions can be very vigorous and must be handled
assessment piece integrated indicators from each of the three outcomes in the
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Outcome 6; creation of summative assessment (4). I feel I did very well in the
evaluate student understanding and piece together all concepts of the unit into a
single, detailed, and easily followed instructional booklet. This was done without the
need for students to develop their own materials (i.e. doing a formal lab write=up). I
will have the chance to improve here by including future students in the discussion
of how to plan for differentiation and adaptation (5). My planned instruction for this
activity takes place using flexible grouping, an adaptation that allows for the
inclusion of students that may naturally struggle in the science classroom with
higher achieving peers for the betterment of their own learning. In my unit plan I
allow for multiple days to complete this inquiry activity so students dont feel
rushed, and use multiple means by which they can communicate their scientific
literacy understanding (i.e. calculation, full sentence, single word, and point form
answers). Outcome 15; create engaging learning activities and tasks (4). Students
will engage as groups during this activity, while the creation of student interest falls
to the application of their classroom knowledge if a different and new setting. Some
students perceive physical science to be nothing but math or something that comes
straight from a textbook. By giving students a chance to work hands on with the
hoping to elicit the want for deeper understanding. Outcome 16; the planned
activities would improve the discipline specific literacy skills of my students (5).
Several literacies are broached through the completion of this inquiry activity
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including; physical (working in a lab), mathematical (calculations), written,
cognitive, and oral/communicative (working as a group). These all relate back to the
unit with the culminating unit test and furthered inquiry in Chemistry 30. Outcome
18; the final task in my unit elicits evidence of application in a new situation (5). By
incorporating the students into a lab based activity containing multiple forms of
environment. What they have learned in the classroom will be practically translated
into the methods of inquiry work relevant to their success in the completion of all
five stages. If student later peruse university/college, this is the type of work they
on several lessons from the unit including; the review lesson (2), five types of
chemical reactions and how to balance their equations (6), units, conversions, and
concentration, dilution, and solubility (11), and WHIMIS, MSDS, and lab safety (12).
The review lesson begins with students working with the periodic table, reviewing
IUPAC naming, and basic principles of chemical formula writing needed for all
sections of this assessment. The five types of reactions lesson, introduces students
to the physical and chemical characteristics of each of the five reactions and how to
properly represent each as a written formula. Lessons eight, ten, and eleven all
Without knowledge from these lessons students may be unable to complete the
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how they are expected to act and react in a lab environment while providing them
with all the safety information they need for the completion of the stages.
As for the outcomes that identify with my professional learning and growth,
the following is how I perceive myself as having preformed. Outcome 7; I set and
easily relayed to students for their understanding and practical application. I feel I
accomplished this and throughout the course of the unit will receive feedback on
the processes of the inquiry by how quickly and safely the assessment was
portfolio reflects growth in my planning (3). At this point in the early stages of my
portfolio building I have some evidence of planning in all relevant categories and my
insight and understanding of the processes of planning are depicted in detail. Some
coming on-time, and actively contributing to class discussion both in our larger
lecture segment as well as in the small group seminars. I have used our time to
actively work on the creation f not only this assessment piece but also all other
relevant assignments with both my lesson and unit plans being near completed at
this time.