Beginner Task
Embedded is my Google form. I chose to include a book being read aloud for the video and wrote questions for my students to answer. We read a book called 14 Cows for America in 3rd grade and a nonfiction article called "I Survived September 11th." I thought this would add another dimension to the discussion.
Intermediate Activity
I made a form that checks students' ability to count coins under $1. I really like Flubaroo. After I become more proficient at making forms, I can see how this would be a time-saver. I forgot to add the name questions at the top of my form and added them as I was half way into the form. I moved those questions to the top, but on the Flubaroo answer sheet, the questions still appeared in the middle of the columns. Is there a way to fix that other than to remember at the beginning?!
I think that if you gave an entrance quiz and removed student names from the spread sheet, you could have a powerful self assessment tool for the kids. You could discuss as a class what was going well and what wasn't. Students may see that others are not getting everything right and may be more willing to ask questions or explain their thinking.
It would be a great way to use formative assessment to plan your lesson for the next day, or modify as you go. You could form small groups based on the information received to target individual skills.
For my branching form, I chose to do a singular/plural and common/proper noun check-in. Here it is:
I think the path is correct!
Wow! I love how you embedded your form. I saw it and tried to make mine look like yours. I was unsuccessful :( This looks great on your blog. Google forms are a great way to do formative assessment!
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea to embed a video in a form and then follow it up with comprehension questions. Before this activity, I didn't even know we could put videos into google forms!
ReplyDeleteJulie, these forms are amazing, and wow, it looks so terrific to embed the form instead of just having a link! I love how you made the forms so visually appealing (in addition to having great questions) and am sure the kids will appreciate this as well. :) Sure beats a black and white printed worksheet!
ReplyDeleteyou are a rock star and I'm just going to copy you in all things.
ReplyDeleteExcellent job with Forms. I like your idea of removing names from an entrance quiz and showing the results to the students. It is valuable for students to see evidence of where they need the most learning and as you said, it is good for them to see that other students got some of the same questions wrong that they did so they don't feel like they are the only ones who didn't know.
ReplyDeleteI liked your branching form and how you had 2 questions before your first branch. Did students have to get both questions correct in order to move on to the next topic or could they move on if they just got the second one correct? Also, when you are doing a branching form you might want to turn off the ability for students to go back. If they figure out that they did something wrong, they could go back and change it until they got it right.
To answer your question, you can move columns in a spreadsheet. You should be able to do this right away but it is a good practice to wait until all students have taken the form because sometimes things seem to break and columns get tied to the wrong questions.