Assessment Ideas for Levels 1- 4

Healthy Stream Ideas
Use this Microsoft Word document to ensure understanding of words used and as a formative assessment to find out what the students know and where there are gaps. Click here to download the document (176 KB).

Field Trip Feedback
Use this Microsoft Word document as a summative assessment and for evaluation of field trip. Click here to download the document (176 KB).

Knowledge
Recognise macroinvertebrates by sorting them into very good, good and poor water quality types. And Match pictures with names.

Attitudes and values
Write the cards for a snakes and ladders game with the perspectives of different stakeholders considered.
Click here for examples in a Microsoft Word document (37 KB).
Click here for a photo of the boardgame itself (211 KB).

Write a letter to the council to explain the view of a selected set of stakeholders

Essential skills
Numeracy or information - accurately record the data gathered at the stream and record in a recognised format such as a graph

Social Studies
Take part in a debate about waterways which represents the different values a variety of land users place on the same resource e.g. Maori, fishers, regional council, families, ecotourism, shingle works etc.
Click here for the Microsoft Word document (25 KB).

Any more ideas?
Please send in to us at nwp@rsnz.org or NWP, PO Box 598, Wellington