Assessment Ideas for Landforms

Today I ran across a blog by a teacher, that had an idea for assessing students understanding of different land forms. The project that this students had to construct was a flip book on 5 land forms that they had learned about. This idea for assessment really stood out to me. I have always seen assessment ideas such as students constructing life like models of these land forms  but I had never really seen the idea for a flip book. I really liked this because it is simple and also allows for more explanation of the land forms. It also allows students to show their understanding of multiple land forms rather than just one. This flip book idea is also a very inexpensive project since the majority of the resources will be right in the classroom for the students.

Even though this assessment type has the students portraying 5 different land forms, it still gives the students the ability to choose which land forms they would like to explain and draw. The flip book entails that the students choose 5 land forms. The students then draw a picture of each type of land form, and give an explanation for each land form as well. Depending on the grade level, the description of the land form can be more extensive or more basic. Which brings me to another reason why I really liked this form of assessment; It can be used in any grade level, and will be a fun and engaging activity for all students. It is suitable for ESL, Struggling readers, and even talented and gifted students since the complexity of the assignment can easily be adjusted to suit the needs of the students.

Below I will list the link to the blog so that you can also see the pictures that this teacher posted. She posted pictures of an example that she made herself, which I would like to add that it is a fantastic example.

URL Link:
http://amazingclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/teaching-landforms.html

APA citation:

Gilchrist, K. (2011, September 8). The AmazingClassroom.com Blog: Teaching Landforms. The AmazingClassroom.com Blog. Retrieved April 4, 2013, from http://amazingclassroom.blogspot.com/2011/09/teaching-landforms.html