Prior knowledge assessment

The students picked up the issue that they had listed down for their formative on Choose, Act and Reflect. They reflected on what form of expression they would use to tell about it to the world to stop, their friends, their teacher, help/maid etc. They also reflected on  why they used that form, its impact on others etc.

Unit 2: MEDIA:Tuning into the Central idea

The students were given Central idea all jumbled up. They unscrambled the words to arrive at a meaningful central idea and reflected on it as a group.

Lines of inquiry, key concepts and related concepts were addressed too.

Reflections

Children reflected on the unit citing what they learnt, what they did well and what they would like to do better. They also created a personal goal which would help them to organise themselves.

Summative Assessment- UOI

Students designed a country with its own system of government. They constructed the country’s constitution – a set of rules that show how the country is governed. It had to include a description of the way in which the government is organised as well as the powers that the government has.

The student has the choice of how to present this work: to produce a poster, model, booklet, an advertisement promoting the country as a place to live or a written piece of work.

The criteria students decided on the system of government: the branches of the government and the people who head the government, voting system: how are the leaders elected, basic laws: at least 10 along with punishments, the top-5 rights that a citizen of the country has, what are the responsibilities that come with those rights, how would a citizen of the country feel and a comparison of the government system with the Indian government.

It was exciting the governments students had created and the thoughts that wen behind the creations.

Number Sequence

Students busted some groovy dance moves and learnt about division with remainder through ‘Head and knee grouping strategy’.  The students, who were unable to be the part of any group when the music stopped, were considered as remainders. All of them really enjoyed the kinaesthetic learning followed by questions based on division with remainder. Children arranged themselves according to the numbers allotted to them. Thus they acquired the knowledge of number sequence and later formed different number patterns on their own.

Summative Assessment- ENGLISH

They had a summative assessment to assess their understanding of the concept where they had to do a role play ‘ The case of the Missing____________.’

Each child had to speak in any sentence form to unwind the mystery. Each group had 4 members and each could speak only one kind of sentence. Their goal was to solve a mystery thus showcasing their understanding of the concept.