Portfolio Assignment

This semester in Assessment & Management with Mrs. Hotchkiss, we were given the assignment of creating a Portfolio. We had the option of choosing to do it over a whole school year, or over a single unit. I chose 2nd grade Earth Science, a single unit involving Plants.

The GPS I chose for this unit was S2E3: Students will observe and record changes in their surroundings and infer the causes of the changes.
a) Recognize effects that occur in a specific area caused by weather, plants, animals, and/or people.

Each student will have their own 1inch binder to contain any previous classroom work or individual work that they chose. I will be of some assistance to choose some of the best work of the student.

Some of the student’s goals throughout this unit were:
· Be able to identify plant parts
· Know where seeds come from
· How seeds grow
· Determine what plants need to survive
· Recognize how plants are a benefit to our plants
· Know what plants do for humans & animals
· Recognize different types of plants and seeds

The classroom as a whole would do activities such as writing a poem about flowers or plants, singing songs to help better learn plant terms, investigate and describe different types of seeds, and read books about plants, flowers, and seeds.

The individual students would do activities such as making a collage of leaves, a matching worksheet with plant terms, coloring a flower and labeling its parts, and a writing activity.