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Assessment Strategies
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Overview Weaving in Continuous Assessment Shifting Assessment Emphasis Involving Students (self- and peer-assessment)	Pre-Assessment What Students Know KW(H)L Charts Concept Maps Writing About or Drawing Concepts Pre/Post Questions
Planning for Assessment	Standards-Based Curriculum Planning
Ongoing Assessment Student Portfolios Journaling Questions Science Inquiry Journals Observations and Interviews Open-Ended Questions Prediction Activities Projects, Products, and Performances Paper and Pencil Tasks The Science Process Teacher Tips: Using Journey North Features for Assessment	Documenting Assessment Tools and Strategies Anecdotal Notes Checklists and Scales Rubrics Photographs Interpreting Children’s Work Assessment Management Tips
Sample Journey North Assessment/Scoring Tools
Scientific Thinking/Skills Making a Bar Graph (checklist) Mind Over Mapping (self-assessment checklist) Using Data to Construct a Reasonable Explanation (rubric) Using Data to Construct a Reasonable Explanation (whole-class rubric) Making Predictions Using Data (rubric) Science Process Skills (scale) Scientific Inquiry/Investigations (rubric, grades 4-8) Interpreting (Tulip) Maps (written response to online data) Collaboration Group Cooperation (rubric #1) Group Cooperation (rubric #2) Journey North Concepts Seasonal Change, Sunlight, Migrations (rubric) Reasons for Seasons (scale) Mystery Class Concepts (self-assessment rubric) Monarch Life Story (scale) Adaptation Concepts: Monarchs (scale) Understanding Plants and the Seasons (self-assessment scale) Habitat and the Seasons (scale) Other Teacher-Developed Journey North Assessment Tools MORE Coming!