Plickers for Formative Assessment at Green Valley

Ms. Rhodes’s second grade students attending Green Valley Elementary used the app Plickers to review scientific vocabulary related to Procedural Text, Force & Motion, and Magnetism at the beginning of a lesson and at the conclusion of a lesson following the 5E instructional model.

Engage: Student took a quick quiz using Plickers to identify prior academic vocabulary knowledge at the beginning of the lesson. Ms. Rhodes guided a discussion on interpretation visual data representations with students.

Explore: Students explored concepts related to magnets, force and motion, and procedural text.

Explain and Elaborate: Students created a board game in a group that incorporated force and motion and magnetism. Students wrote procedural text as part of this exercise. Students played games and provided peer review.

Evaluate: Students as a whole group interpreted visual data representation in the form of a bar chart in Plickers to measure their progress as a class.