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THE ABCs of TESTING SEASON
LESSONS ABOUT TESTING
Reading Between the Bubbles: A Three-Part Lesson
In this lesson from Rethinking Schools, Linda Christensen offers a powerful mini-unit that demystifies testing and helps build meaningful test prep activities.
Testing, Tracking, and Toeing the Line: A Role Play
In this lesson from Rethinking Schools, Bill Bigelow shares his role play for bolstering student understanding about the power dynamics inherent in testing's rise in the 1920s -- and today.
Multiple Intelligences
This activity from teacher Lisa B. Green helps students explore the different ways they, and others, can be "smart" and analyze how educational practices like testing may inherently benefit some learners over others.
Research Papers
In this sample paper, student Yelena Akopyan demonstrates that the testing phenomenon can serve as excellent fodder for youth inquiry and writing.
ACTIVITIES TO USE BETWEEN TESTS
Are your students exhausted -- and bored -- by fill-in-the-bubble testing? During the intervals between tests, give these activities a try:
The Emotion Map
This activity, developed by teacher Karen Bovard, can help students express themselves through artful cartography. (All Grades)
Love and Friendship
This time of year, young students may need some nurturing. Use this collection of activities, along with Teaching Tolerance's free music CD and songbook, I Will Be Your Friend, to enliven young hearts and minds. (Early Grades)
The Philosopher's Stone
Teacher Nicole Herr shares her strategy for creating a safe and fun space for students to share their opinions about hot topics affecting them and society -- from testing to current events. (Middle Grades)
A Journal Can Be Anything
Nine journaling prompts that honor students' multiple intelligences (Middle and Upper Grades)
