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Informal Formative Assessments are used to monitor students understanding of main ideas, key concepts, and skills through out the lesson. They are also not data driven and range from comprehension question to classroom discussions.

Formal Formative Assessments are pre-planned assessments that are used to evaluate if the students have learned the main idea, key concepts, and skills of the lesson. They are data driven assessments, and the scores can be used to compare with other formal formative assessments to check if the students are reaching their learning goals.

Summative Assessments are end-of-unit test, state exams, or district benchmarks. They are given at the end of a unit to measure the student's proficiency of the main ideas, key concepts, and skills.

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Students will have an end-of-unit test which will consist of  multiple choice questions, true or false questions, and short answer response questions.

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Students will improvise rhythm and beat while listening to a music video about the three branches of government.
Formative Assessments:

Formal: Students will demonstrate understanding of rhythm and beat by creating their own rhythm and beat.

Informal: Students will be asked review questions about the three branches of governments.

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Student will create artwork (interactive graphic organizer) on the three branches of government using a variety of artistic material.
Formative Assessments:

Formal: Students will turn in their interactive graphic organizer for grading.

Informal: Students will be asked question through the lesson to check for understanding.

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Students will solve word problems involving money through $20.00, using symbols $,  ".", ₵.
Formative Assessments:

Formal: Students will work with their group to show the whole class how they solved their words problems. Students will turn in their group work.

Informal: Students will be asked question through the lesson to check for understanding.

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Students  will write an informative essay about the three branches of government and convey ideas and information clearly.
Formative Assessments:

Formal: Students will turn in their reading passage handout for grading.

Informal: Students will be asked comprehension questions based of the reading passage to check for understanding.

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Students will ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of the reading passage based on the three branches of government.
Formative Assessments:

Formal: Students will turn in their reading passage handout for grading.

Informal: Students will be asked comprehension questions based of the reading passage to check for understanding.