Assessment Planning Guide

Type of Assessment
Curriculum
Priority
Worth Being
Familiar

Important to
Know and Do

Learning
Objective
Students will be
able explain
different
cultural rituals
of different
regions.

Students will be
able to explain
in detail ways
that the
environment
affects the
humans who
live there.

Standard

SS.35.G.2
Essential
Concept and/or
Skill:
Understand
how geographic
and human
characteristics
create culture
and define
regions.

SS.35.G.4
Essential
Concept and/or
Skill:
Understand
how physical
processes and
human actions
modify the
environment
and how the
environment
affects humans.

Formative
Students will be reading articles about
different cultural rituals and traditions
(specifically winter celebrations) and
relate them to why they may be
present in that region.

Summative

Students will write journal

summaries of the articles.

Have class discussion based on the

articles
http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/e
xplore/winter-celebrations/

Students will write a short essay

about how they would live given a
specific location.

Enduring
Understanding

Students will be
able to explain
how land,
resources, and
culture are all
connected.

SS.35.G.2
Essential
Concept and/or
Skill:
Understand
how geographic
and human
characteristics
create culture
and define
regions.

After looking around the website

http://www.exploreandmore.org/wor
ld/default.htm, students will
complete, in groups, a graphic
organizer comparing land, resources,
and culture.
Groups will share their ideas with the
class.
Students will hold a class discussion
over the articles.

Students will write a short paper

explaining how the three are
connected.
They will explain how culture would
be affected if the land or resources
in that area changed.