Name: Marrian McKay

Title of Unit: Beyond Tick Tock!

Grade Level: Kindergarten

Subjects: Mathematics, Social Studies, and Language Arts

Part III – Determine Acceptable Evidence

Evidence of Learning

Formative Assessment

Daily teacher observations of individual and small group activities

Questioning during lessons

Questioning during the reading of stories

Completion of activity sheets

Completion of homework assignments

Correct use of upper case and lower case letters

Lesson summarizing activities

Use of key vocabulary words

Summative Assessment

Calendar skills checklist

Signs of the seasons chart

Student Self Assessment and Reflection

Where on the mountain are you? (self assessment)

Small group self-assessment

Performance Tasks – GRASPS

Goal - You will find out the uses of a calendar; how we use it to plan activities for each day, month, and season. You will see how the calendar is organized and be able to identify the days of the week, months of the year, and the four seasons.

Role - You will be a weather reporter. You will create a four (4) section chart with pictures showing the order of the four seasons in one year, the months of the year that fall in those seasons, and the days of the week in sequence.

Audience – You will be asked to do a demonstration to kindergarten students at a nearby elementary school.

Situation - The kindergarten students are learning about the importance of a calendar. They need to know the names of the days of the week and how many days are in one week. They also need to know the names of the months of the year and how many months make a year. It is important for them to know how to dress during each season, and how the seasons bring changes. Your job is to be a weather reporter and demonstrate to use a calendar, how they can tell one season from another, and what they should wear during the seasons.

Product/Performance - You will create a chart using pictures and craft materials, showing how a tree changes during each season. You will attach the months of the year that fall under each season, and place the days of the week across all sections at the bottom of the chart in order of sequence. You will share with the students what happens to trees throughout the year, and how human beings have to wear proper clothing.

Standards/Criteria for Success – see rubric

Calendar Skills Rubric
Calendar	Knows the basic uses of the calendar	Has some knowledge of the use of the calendar	Has no knowledge of the use of the calendar
Days	Knows all seven days of the week	Knows some of the days of the week	Has no knowledge of the days of the week
Months	Knows all twelve months of the year	Knows some months of the year	Has no knowledge of the months of the year
Seasons	Knows the names of all four seasons	Knows the names of some seasons	Has no knowledge of the seasons
Seasonal changes	Correctly shows how a tree changes over different seasons	Shows some knowledge of how a tree changes over different seasons	Unable to show how a tree changes over different seasons
Clothing	Correctly glues clothing for each season	Glues some clothing correctly for the seasons	Glues the wrong clothing for the seasons