Student Assessment
This type of assessment can be used daily to check in with students on their understanding of the content, such as thumbs up, thumbs down or fist to five.
What is formative assessment?
In this activity, for correct answers, students earn an X or O to try to get three in a row.
What is Tic, Tac, Toe?
What is a dice?
This fun and popular game uses various dollar amounts as rewards for correct answers that must always be phrased in the form of a question.
What is Jeopardy?
This type of project utilizes a computer to have individual or teams of students present information to one another.
What is a Power Point Presentation?
IXL uses these types of assessments to track student growth and help them get buy in for their own progress.
What is diagnostic testing?
In this type of game, students would try to match pairs that are hidden and revealed as each student takes a turn.
What is memory?
Watch the arrow to see what option will be chosen.
What is a spinner?
A great way to have every student working on problems, you can have students use these to show what they know with an expo marker.
What are board races?
A type of visual project that utilizes three distinct areas to display the information.
What is a tri-fold poster?
These quick check-ins to assess whether students understand a topic can be used to allow a student to dismiss from class.
What are exit tickets?
In this type of activity, students are given a specific topic that they must argue for or against to justify their position.
What is a debate?
These brightly colored objects can be assembled together to keep track of scores or simulate fraction bars or decimals.
What are snap cubes?
Use of this all-class multiple-choice question bank can be used individually or in a group.
What is Kahoot?
This type of project utilizes 3-D to display a scene, event or environment in miniature form to increase the learning through a visual presentation.
This type of test would be given at the end of larger block of instruction to ensure students have learned the important concepts from a chapter or unit in the class.
What is a summative assessment?
Students would use a card and try to complete problems or tasks to get one a completion up, down, or across. Also, shares a name with a common childhood dog song.
What is Bingo?
These objects filled with an everyday common food are a great way to add some fun to your classroom.
What are bean bags?
These races encourage students to solve as many problems as possible in a set amount of time while retrieving them from a common household object.
What are bucket races?
A type of written communication that uses folded paper as panels that are revealed to present the information on a given topic, business or ceremony.
What is a tri-fold brochure?
These teacher tool can assess students knowledge by keeping them on their toes for being called on. They are responsible for answering questions at any time.
What is a name randomizer?
In this type of activity, students are given clues to find a prize hidden in the classroom.
What is a scavenger hunt?
These colored plastic pieces have a variety of shapes and sizes, such as yellow octogons, blue diamonds, green triangles, and orange squares and can be used in a variety of learning situations.
What are pattern blocks?
This all-classroom game utilizes competition between individual students in a variety of chosen games that give students a chance to show what they know in competition with each other.
What is Blooket?
A type of activity where the teacher breaks information down into small group presentations for each group to brief out on.
What is a jigsaw activity?