This month, the Science Teacher Editor's Corner includes a selection of engaging and responsive assessments to foster inclusive science classrooms.
Here is the list:
- Podcast creation
- Course blog with students
- Multi-genre project
- Social media profiles (centering around the content)
- Tying students’ identities to the sciences
- Sharing, through artwork, how their culture views the science content
- Creating a music playlist related to what they are learning
- Sharing videos relating to the content; evaluating the videos for misconceptions that are perpetuated in the videos
- Creating a “Shark Tank” project that addresses content being uncovered
- Getting involved in a citizen science project related to their identities
- Shadowing a mentor in a STEM field and creating a project focusing on their findings and experiences
- Writing an autobiography addressing how they perceive science in terms of their identities
- Researching a BIPOC STEM professional, one with a difference, or one from various cultures, and portraying them in class
- Writing a bedtime story focusing on science content in such a way the stories could be read to elementary students.
- Designing a billboard “selling” concepts, phenomena, or science and engineering processes
- Designing a book jacket
- Writing a book review on a STEM book
- Creating a science-based calendar
- Designing a mobile that reflects themselves in science
- Drawing a cartoon
- Creating stop motion videos of scientific processes
- Writing an editorial
- Writing a play for the class to perform
- Preparing an entry for Wikipedia
- Creating a flip book
- Creating graffiti sharing about STEM, STEM concepts, or STEM processes
- Writing a speech
- Engaging in a debate
- Creating a job application and completing it for their ideal STEM career
- Evaluating hypothetical or actual scientific grant proposals
- Sharing myths from various cultural backgrounds that address science
- Creating a parody
- Designing a poster using Canva or some other technological tool
- Creating a questionnaire and gathering data on a particular science topic from friends, family members, and some social media groups
- Writing riddles, limericks, jokes, or puns about content or crosscutting concepts
- Creating a film, commercial, or other media depicting a NGSS standard
- Writing tweets for a mock Twitter account related to the science class