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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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Worksheet

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Introduce your class to another type of ecosystem, the taiga ecosystem, through a reading passage. Class members read the text and then respond to five reading questions about the content of the passage.
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Discover how much your young scientists know about biotic and abiotic factors with a two-question formative assessment that requires them to observe, list, and describe. 
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From tiny organisms to entire biomes, young scientists examine the interdependent relationships tying all living and non-living things together with this collection of ecology resources.
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A critical look into the structure and function of ecosystems is here for young learners as a series of lessons and worksheet activities. Topics covered include land-based and marine ecosystems, connections to the water cycle, food...
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