Chapter 9

1.     A method to find out about your students’ prior understanding is to do a K-W-L chart with them.

2.     By establishing “anchors” you gain a sense of where students are starting and how far they are going as they work to meet learning goals.

3.     How to assess what students learned:

a.     Have students create something new that asks them to summarize or synthesize what they have learned.

b.     Evaluate students’ work using the standards of these disciplines.

c.      Encourage students to enter in a contest.

d.     Encourage students to submit their work for publication.

4.     Our topic is Staying Healthy and this can relate to our topic because there are so many topics that deal with staying healthy, so by doing a K-W-L, it would be easy to see where the students stand.