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Assessment Journal #5:

During science lessons and experiments most of the assessment being done is observations. Last week the students did an experiment on sorting rocks because rocks was their unit plan at the time and when the teacher was not helping the students she had her clipboard out making a few observations on how the students were interacting with each other, how they were connecting to the experiment, as well as how well they were recording their observations. Science can become difficult to assess at such a young as when they are not writing very well so in this case I think that this form of assessment, which is observing is a great way to notice if kids are on task as well as understanding what they are working on and how they are working with each other.