1. Fast, Fun Formative Assessment

2. Ziv (1976) – humorous stimuli increase creative thinking Goodman (1983) – humor captures and holds attention and frees students from distractions Chapman and Crompton (1978) – humor facilitates recall

3. Goal: Create a toolbox of formative assessment strategies, adapted for content area

5. A Definition Formative Assessment: a planned process in which teachers or students use assessment-based evidence to adjust what they are currently doing

6. Summative Assessment Binary Scoring yes/no on/off all/nothing zero/ten Formative Assessment

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8. Great Sentence Caper Victim – ExclamatoryWitness – DeclarativeSomeone close to victim – ImperativeDetective - InterrogativeVictim – ExclamatoryWitness – DeclarativeSomeone close to victim – ImperativeDetective - Interrogative Victim – Exclamatory Friend or Spouse of Victim - Imperative Witness – Declarative Detective - Interrogative

9. Social StudiesSocial Studies ABC’s Complete the sentences A (letter) is for (topic) because ___________. B is for ____ because… C is for ____ because...

10. Social StudiesSocial Studies ABC’s A is for democracy because it is a form of government for All the people. B is for democracy because it is By the people. C is for democracy because it fosters Community.

11. Social StudiesSocial Studies Analogy (A designated process, concept, or principle) is like _______ because… Democracy is like ___ because …

12. Social StudiesSocial Studies Analogy Democracy is like a casserole because several kinds of people, the ingredients, work together to make something tastier and more interesting than a single ingredient.

13. Similes and Metaphors A soldier is a pawn in a chess game of war, small and helpless. Soldiers are the wind—one day they’re home and the next they’re gone. War is wind, always trying to knock you down when you just got up. A war is like playing sports. It will not end until one side wins. War is a cave entrance. It’s deep, dark, and dangerous.

14. Social StudiesSocial Studies Dialogue Write a conversation between an expert on a topic and someone needing the expertise, or write the conversation between two people of different time periods.

15. Social StudiesSocial Studies Dialogue Write a conversation between Governor Nixon and Thomas Jefferson about voting rights.

16. ArtArt Do’s and Don’ts Three do’s and three don’ts for using, applying, or relating to the content.

17. ArtArt Do’s and Don’ts Three do’s and don’ts for art composition in painting.

18. ArtArt How-To Poem “How to Be a ___” Include academic and informal language.

19. ArtArt How-To Poem “How to Be Picasso”

20. ArtArt Kooky Quiz Create a multiple choice questions based on today’s topic. (Sometimes the real answer is the absurdity.)

21. ArtArt Kooky Quiz Picasso’s Blue Period was so named because a) he developed a fondness for blueberries, b) he was being treated by Sigmund Freud for depression, c) much of his work was in dark, somber, and blue tones, d) all of the above.

22. MathMath Newspaper Headline Write a headline that captures the main idea of the topic. Include a strong verb.

23. MathMath Newspaper Headline “Equilateral Triangle Declares Equality in All Sides and Angles”

24. MathMath One Dozen Summary Use exactly twelve words to summarize the lesson.

25. MathMath One Dozen Summary Equilateral triangles are composed of three equal sides and three equal angles.

26. MathMath RAFT – role, audience, format, topic

27. MathMath RAFT – role, audience, format, topic You are the supervisor of transportation (role) for a local school district. Write an email (format) to a teacher (audience) who needs to know how much it will cost to take a field trip (topic) to the art museum, which is 20 miles away. In your message, explain (strong verb) the cost of transportation, knowing that the bus you plan to use gets nine miles per gallon of gasoline and the going rate for gasoline these days is $3.39 a gallon.

28. ScienceScience Riddles List facts you know on the topic. Number the facts with the first fact being the fact least likely to give away the answer to the riddle. The highest number goes to the fact the would most likely give away the answer. Think of an ending question. (What is it?)

29. ScienceScience Riddles I am a part of the skeletal system. At birth, I am made of 44 separate bony elements. Except for the mandible, my bones are joined together. I support the structure of the face. I am a cavity for the brain. What am I?

30. ScienceScience Rare Photograph Draw something that makes no sense based on what has been learned about the topic. Write a caption of explanation.

31. ScienceScience Rare Photograph Only the mandible is hinged in the skull; the other bones are fused.

32. ScienceScience Top Ten List Include some “ooh” facts in addition to the general knowledge facts.

33. ScienceScience Top Ten List “Top Ten Reasons Why I Want to Be a Grizzly Bear”

34. Acrostics King Tut King Tut was eight or nine when he was king. In his tomb were Numbers of drawings. Gold surrounded him in his coffin. Tut died of an infection. Under all of the shrine Tut lies.

35. Found Poetry Suicidal Threads Early abuse weaves its way into the brain, with potentially tragic consequences Science News for Kids webpage

36. The Alien Next Door Astronomers searching for Earthlike worlds need look no further than Alpha Centauri, the stellar system next door. An Earth-sized planet has been discovered circling a star, just four light-years away. Tucked in close to its sun-star, the planet is likely a roasted world incapable of hosting life. (from Nadia Drake in Science News)

37. Two Word Sentences Stone breaks. Water quakes. Magma glows. Volcano blows. Lola Schaefer, An Island Grows

38. Change Poem Write a poem describing a single change or multiple changes using one word lines. The changes should show leaps through time. Fruit on Counter Fresh Firm Crisp Becomes Speckled And spotted Yielding To Pressure Bruised And withered Fruit flies Gather

39. Any Content, Any ClassAny Content, Any Class Four Corners The Dirt Road: There’s so much dust, I can’t see where I’m going! Help!! The Paved Road: It’s fairly smooth, but there are many potholes along the way. The Highway: I feel fairly confident but have an occasional need to slowdown. The Interstate: I ’m traveling along and could easily give directions to someone else.

40. Any Content, Any ClassAny Content, Any Class Stoplight Exit Student decides which one to respond to and places Post-it on the appropriate stoplight circle when leaving class. Green - What I Learned Yellow - What I considered, a question Red - What stopped the learning

41. Goal: Create a toolbox of formative assessment strategies, adapted for content area

42. Credits: Wacky examples written by Colleen Appel, teacher consultant with the Ozarks Writing Project