We offer online and offline features that embed formative assessments into classroom instruction.
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Whether through activities, virtual labs, reflections, investigations, book assignments or question assignments, students encounter assessments throughout the book that targets the three dimensions and the different phases of the 5E instructional model.

There are content options in the book that serve as in-class activities explicitly linked to one or more of the 3D's. These activities are accompanied by multimedia to promote content accessibility, and articles that deepen student learning.

Teachers can extend activities by asking their students to work in groups, share their answers in class, or do these activities for homework.
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Another type of formative assessment can be found in the practical activities embedded in the text, which are meant for in-class instruction only and accompanied by safety guidelines, these tasks guide students in looking at the effects of different factors on a dependent variable.
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Virtual labs allow students to engage in experiments that may otherwise be too dangerous, laborious, or require certain equipment schools may not have. Students can see the results of the experiment at a much faster pace and can alter variables or conditions to observe different outcomes.
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Reflection content options are an excellent assessment tool for gauging students' development and engagement with the material. Different prompts get students thinking about the core ideas from each lesson. as well as reflecting on what they have learned so far, and where they may still have questions.
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Knowledge checks are a great way for students to do independent formative assessments. This allows them to test their understanding of the content and skills they learned in the content option, get immediate feedback, and adjust accordingly.
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These quiz checks provide students with an assessment of their level of understanding as they move through the phenomenon of NGSS.

Creating assignments and analyzing the data from the results allows for more responsive and personalized teaching, rather than focusing on what individual students got right or wrong, teachers can use the data to assess how the class did as a whole and pinpoint areas of improvement for responsive instruction.
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Book assignments allow your students to fully engage with all of the active learning content available. Simply assign a content option, or content options, as a book assignment. Content options can include reading material, quizzes, performance tasks, interactive activities, and reflections. 
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