Concept Development

1. Pioneers
1. As a pre-assessment for the pioneer unit have students list everything that you think has to do with pioneers on padlet with a partner.
2. Group all the items that you listed and label your groups using padlet.
3. Regroup your items. Keep the first grouping. Decide which grouping you liked better.
4. Write a sentence explaining which group you liked better and why.
2. Water
1. As a pre-assessment for the Water Cycle unit, students will answer the question on AnswerGarden, "List as many things as you can that you know about water."
2. Ask students to group the different answers on a piece of paper and label their groups.
3. Ask students to share their grouping with a partner and decide which group they like better, or if they should create a completely new grouping.
4. Write a sentence explaining why they grouped it like they did.
3. Environment
1. As a post-assessment students will list everything they can remember about environments with a small group.
2. Students will then group and label their list.
3. Ask students to share their groupings with another group of students. The combined group of students will now create a new grouping based on their initial groupings.
4. Students will create a concept map using Total Recall App on their iPads.