K+-+5+SCIENCE

=K - 5 Science Findings= Grade 4 Science Test - http://www.nysedregents.org/testing/sciei/gr4writ08.pdf
 * Link to Grade 4 Science NYS Assessment**

(Examples – Vocabulary, Negatives, Discriminators, Multiple Step, Chart or Graph, etc.)**
 * ESSENTIAL QUESTIONS**
 * 1. Of the questions that students struggled with, what skill(s) did they need to be successful?

11 MC - students may not have been able to visualize the changes in the rubberband, thus a lot of students choose shape (they may have thought that if they stretched the rubberband it may have maintained its oval like shape), this question may have driven more correct responses if students had a rubberband to experiment with; the correct answer of mass may be a vocuabulary term they were not sure of

15 MC - students may not have been able to read or undestand key words in the question or misinterpreted key words (for example the word volume)

19 MC - students may have not read the answer choices carefully and even though they picked up on the key word life, several chose life span as opposed to life cycle.

21 MC - students may have connected the changes in the tree to life cycle changes (ex. death of leaves could have meant completion of life cycle stage to them) and/or choose life cycle answer since it was the first answer choice and didn't read the other choices

23 MC - students may have thought that plants need water but didn't understand that water, while it may be consumed by plants, it is not a producer; some may have not understood or been able to read the word nutrient in correct answer

24 MC - in this questions students retained the beginning and ending of the cycle (egg and adult), but they confused the larva and pupa stages, they may not have retained the idea of what the larva and pupa stages are, could have been taught alternate language for those stages depending on the living organisms studie d'

25 MC - the number of incorrect responses varied, which seems to show students didn't clearly understand sunlight being a major source of energy, the other three choices could have seemed liked likely answers to them but didn't realize that something that may be a necessity to life may not be part of a food chain; this questions occured at the end of the test when students may be rushing to finish or have begun to lose foucs

26 MC - they may have missed the key word human in the question; the correct answer didn't state who or what cleared the forest so they may not realized a human had to have cleared the forest Place your findings under the appropriate test area title listed below.**
 * 2. Based upon your curriculum map, do you cover the key idea and performance indicator for these difficult questions?

We believe we do cover the key idea and performances indicators, however reading issues and understanding of vocabulary seem to be a recurring problem in the above questions. Grade 4 Science Findings