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

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

9. Social 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.

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

11. Social 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.

12. Social 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.

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

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

15. Art Do’s and Don’ts Three do’s and don’ts for art composition in painting.

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

17. Art How-To Poem “How to Be Picasso”

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

19. Art 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.

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

21. Math Newspaper Headline “Equilateral Triangle Declares Equality in All Sides and Angles”

22. Math One Dozen Summary Use exactly twelve words to summarize the lesson.

23. Math One Dozen Summary Equilateral triangles are composed of three equal sides and three equal angles.

24. Math RAFT – role, audience, format, topic

25. Math 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.

26. Science 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?)

27. Science 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?

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

29. Science Rare Photograph Only the mandible is hinged in the skull; the other bones are fused.

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

31. Science Top Ten List “Top Ten Reasons Why I Want to Be a Grizzly Bear”

32. Found Poetry Suicidal Threads Early abuse weaves its way into the brain, with potentially tragic consequences

33. Great Sentence Caper Victim – Exclamatory Witness – Declarative Someone close to victim – Imperative Detective - Interrogative

34. Any 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.

35. Any 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

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

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