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Designing Effective Projects: Music of the Westward Expansion
Assessment Plan
Assessment Plan

Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins

Students work on projects and
complete tasks

After project work is completed

timeline
  • K-W-L Chart
  • Discussion
  • Seeing Reason maps

 
  • Brainstorm
  • Questioning
  • Song Interpretation and Illustration
  • Diaries
  • Role Play
  • Newsletter Checklist
  • Slideshow Checklist
  • Project Scoring Guide

 

Prior to digging into content, assess student understanding of the pioneers and westward expansion with a Know-Wonder-Learn chart. Use discussion strategies to further explore reasons why pioneers moved west. Check for understanding throughout the discussions to ensure that students understand the content. Use the Seeing Reason Tool to delve into the content, and be sure to review the maps and use the teacher comment feature to probe student thinking and informally asses the cause-and-effect relationships on each map. Use other strategies throughout the unit, such as peer brainstorming and questioning techniques, to help students ask questions, guide their research, and develop content expertise. Provide students with many opportunities to explore the relationship between music and westward expansion using different learning modalities, such as listening to music, writing in diaries, illustrating songs, and role-playing pioneers. Gauge student understanding informally throughout. Discuss newsletter and slideshow expectations and requirements with the newsletter checklist and the slideshow checklist. Share the project scoring guide and use this to assess students’ final presentations.

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