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Congruence of Polygons

Strand: Shape and Space (Transformations)
Outcome: 6

Step 4: Assess Student Learning

Guiding Questions

  • Look back at what you determined as acceptable evidence in Step 2.
  • What are the most appropriate methods and activities for assessing student learning?
  • How will I align my assessment strategies with my teaching strategies?

Sample Assessment Tasks

In addition to ongoing assessment throughout the lessons, consider the following sample activities to evaluate students' learning at key milestones. Suggestions are given for assessing all students as a class or in groups, individual students in need of further evaluation and individual or groups of students in a variety of contexts.

A. Whole Class/Group Assessment

Have the students create a design using their choice(s) of transformations. Have the students explain how their designs were formed from the combination of transformations that they chose. This could be done in pairs or as individuals. Have the students share their results. This could be done as a take home assignment and/or used as an assessment tool for the outcome.

B. One-on-One Assessment

Examples of One on One Assessment  Word Document

C. Applied Learning

Provide opportunities for students to use the strategies learned related to transformations in practical situations and notice whether or not the strategies transfer.

Find an example of a translation, a reflection and a rotation in the real world. Examples could include the reflection of the mountains in Lake Louise, a Ferris wheel rotating around the centre of the wheel and an elevator sliding up and down in an office building.

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