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Formative Assessment #3 AssessmentFormative Assessment #3 Assessment
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Science Matters
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3rd - 5th
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Formative Assessment #3

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This Formative Assessment #3 assessment also includes:
  • 4th Grade Life Science: Ecosystems Overview
  • Introduction and Conceptual Flow Narrative
  • Conceptual Flow Graphic
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Thirteen short-answer questions follow a brief food web activity in a formative assessment designed to test knowledge of ecosystems and the energy that flows through them.

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Concepts

ecosystems, matter, energy, energy flow, food chains, food webs, producers, consumers, decomposers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, the sun

Additional Tags

science

Instructional Ideas

  • When the assessment has concluded, enlarge food web pictures and recreate the web on a bulletin board for learners to reference throughout the remaining lessons of the unit 
  • Review answers as a class to clarify challenging concepts and enhance proficiency

Classroom Considerations

  • Fourteenth item in a 17-item series focused on ecosystems
  • Many of the animals are specific to one location 

Pros

  • Assessment sheet points out important information using bold font
  • Includes an answer key 

Cons

  • Space for short answers is limited 

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