Part One: Overview

The following assessment plan is designed to be used during the fourth quarter, in a first-grade classroom at Farmington, New Mexico elementary school. The students are in school from eight in the morning until two forty-five in the afternoon. For first graders, they get forty-five minutes for recess and to eat lunch that they split with the kindergarten students, and a fifteen-minute afternoon recess. They also have a forty-five-minute special every day that differs between physical education, library, music, computers, and art. Students will have a thirty-minute science section three times a week. This assessment plan is designed to take a total of nine weeks, or one quarter.

According to the Farmington Municipal Schools website, they have science goals for the whole year and the teacher can decide when to teach them. The proficiency scale that will be used in this assessment plan is the domain of Life Sciences, and topic of Cells and the Human Body. It will consist of four units as follows: digestive system, cardiovascular system, skeletal and muscular system, and the senses. Each unit will end with an informative writing piece that will serve as the summative assessment, as well as activities, whole class discussions and worksheets that will serve as the formative assessments.

The standards that will be addressed in all four units are understanding that all organisms have external parts. These parts all have different functions that help the organism survive and grow. The human body, as well as other organisms can grow and adapt. It will also cover several readings, writing and math standards. The digestive system unit will last two weeks. The cardiovascular unit will last for two weeks. The skeletal system unit will last two weeks. The unit on senses will last three weeks.

Part Two: Long Term Assessment Plan

Digestive System

General Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to understand how the digestive system aids in survival.
• Students will understand the basic food requirements for humans.
• Students will understand the way that food aid humans in survival.

Formative Assessment

• Whole class activities
• Oral questions
• Label a food pyramid

Summative Assessment

• Informative Writing Piece

Weights

• Food Pyramid: 5 points, 50% of unit
• Informative writing piece: 5 points, 50% of unit

Cardiovascular System

General Learning Outcomes

• Students will understand how the heart pumps blood and record their own heart rate.
• Students will be able to state the function of the lungs.
• Students will be able to state the function of the blood

Formative Assessment

• Oral discussions
• Heart Rate Activity

Summative Assessment

• Students will write an informative piece about the function of the heart and the lungs

Weights

• Informative Writing Piece: 10 points, 33% of unit
• Heart Rate Activity: 5 points, 16% of unit
• Lungs Book: 5 Points, 16% of unit
• Heart Book: 5 Points, 16% of unit
• Blood Book: 5 Points, 16% of unit

Skeletal and Muscular System

General Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to discuss the function of the skeletal and muscular system.
• Students will be able to discuss a human’s ability to grow.
• Students will be able to identify five bones and five muscles.

Formative Assessment

• Oral discussions
• Worksheets
• Matching activity

Summative Assessment

• Students will write an informative piece

Weights

• Matching Activity: 15 points, 50% of unit
• Informative Writing Piece: 15 points, 50% unit

Senses

General Learning Outcomes

• Students will be able to state what each of the give sense do.
• Students will be able to state what organ goes with each sense.
• Students will be able to match activities with senses.

Formative Assessment

• Oral discussions
• Senses Activity
• Matching activity

Summative Assessment

• Students will write an informative piece

Weights

• Matching Activity: 10 points, 33% of unit
• Senses Activity: 5 points, 17% of unit
• Informative writing piece: 15 points, 50% of unit.

Part Three: Assessment Plan

Unit: Cardio Vascular System

Duration: Two Weeks