• Weaving in Continuous Assessment
• Shifting Assessment Emphasis
• Involving Students (self- and peer-assessment)

• KW(H)L Charts
• Concept Maps
• Writing About or Drawing Concepts
• Pre/Post Questions

Ongoing
Assessment

• Student Portfolios
• Journaling Questions
• Science Inquiry Journals
• Observations and Interviews
• Open-Ended Questions
• Prediction Activities
• Projects, Products, and Performances
• Paper and Pencil Tasks
• The Science Process
• Teacher Tips: Using Journey North Features for Assessment

Documenting Assessment
Tools and Strategies

• Anecdotal Notes
• Checklists and Scales
• Rubrics
• Photographs
• Interpreting Children’s Work
• Assessment Management Tips

• Making a Bar Graph (checklist)
• Mind Over Mapping (self-assessment checklist)
• Using Data to Construct a Reasonable Explanation (rubric)
• Using Data to Construct a Reasonable Explanation (whole-class rubric)
• Making Predictions Using Data (rubric)
• Science Process Skills (scale)
• Scientific Inquiry/Investigations (rubric, grades 4-8)
• Interpreting (Tulip) Maps (written response to online data)

• Group Cooperation (rubric #1)
• Group Cooperation (rubric #2)

• Seasonal Change, Sunlight, Migrations (rubric)
• Reasons for Seasons (scale)
• Mystery Class Concepts (self-assessment rubric)
• Monarch Life Story (scale)
• Adaptation Concepts: Monarchs (scale)
• Understanding Plants and the Seasons (self-assessment scale)
• Habitat and the Seasons (scale)

Other Teacher-Developed Journey North Assessment Tools