Socratic Seminars, students develop their own thinking and help others understand ideas, issues, and values reflected in a text in a group discussion. Although they may debate issues, the use of this is mainly to help students listen to one another. Examples of questions and ways to dive deeper into discussion can be found here.
Have the students develop a mini-lesson and activity on a topic within the unit to teach to the class.
As the name implies, this is the traditional pencil and paper test.
Students can develop their creative writing skills by writing a personal narrative or take the perspective of a character or historical figure to share a story.
Students can summarize and recount events in a video taped news reel or write a newspaper article about it. Better yet, they can create their own newspaper or magazine and have other stories, ads, and activities related to the topic they're studying.
Have students create hypothesis and make experiments where they go through the experiment and reflect on what worked and didn't work.
Have students sing about what they're learning, or have them show their vocal or instrumental techniques.
Participation and collaboration in accomplishing a task is an important part of many things- showing communication within a team to get to an end goal is needed in many aspects of life.
Showing mastery in writing is an important skill, whether it's a research paper, an informational essay, an analysis of an experiment, an example of a real-life math application, a description of imagery in a song, an explanation of a style of art, an explanation of how to do something...the list goes on.
In many forms, students can demonstrate mastery in a visual format such as drawing, painting, making a collage, creating a word wall, working with manipulatives, molding clay, putting together a diorama, etc.