This outlines effective formative and summative assessments a teacher could use when teaching a unit on WWII.

1. World War II Unit Assessment Plan
Unit Objectives:
1. Students will analyze events that led up to the U.S.’ entry into WWII.
2. Students will examine critical events and turning points of World War II.
3. Students will analyze the U.S.’ decision to use the atomic bomb to end the war.
4. Students will utilize Web 2.0 tools to demonstrate their mastery of content standards.
Unit Standards:
● 11.7 Students analyze America's participation in World War II.
● Examine the origins of American involvement in the war, with an emphasis on the events
that precipitated the attack on Pearl Harbor.
● Explain U.S. and Allied wartime strategy, including the major battles of Midway,
Normandy, Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Battle of the Bulge.
● Discuss the decision to drop atomic bombs and the consequences of the decision
(Hiroshima and Nagasaki).
Activities:
1. Interactive lecture (including video clips, primary sources documents, student response)
2. Participation in SchoolFusion discussion board (blog)
3. Online quizzes using quia.com
4. Creation of a group presentation using Google Docs
5. Creation of a simulation of a discussion debating the pros and cons of the use of the
atomic bomb using voki.com
6. Creation of website using weebly.com that includes an interactive timeline (using
dipity.com) and a short video, (using animoto.com).
Formative Assessments:
1. SchoolFusion Discussion Board posts and replies
a. Measuring progress: Students will post responses to the class discussion board,
including replies to comments posted by classmates. The teacher will use a
rubric to assess students’ performance.
2. Online quizzes
a. Measuring progress: Students must earn at least an 80% on quizzes in order to
move on to the next section of the interactive online lecture
3. Group Google Docs presentation
a. Measuring progress: The teacher will compare group presentations to the
assessment rubric periodically during the creation of the project before assigning
a final grade
Feedback:
1. Teacher comments on student posts on the class discussion board. Students are
allowed to modify posts in accordance with teacher feedback. Students also provide
feedback to peers regarding the content of their posts.
2. Teacher will comment on individual student/group work using annotations in Google
Docs. Students use feedback to modify their project, as necessary.
3. Students will self-assess assignments using provided rubrics as well as provide
feedback to groupmates as they create their project. Students will use this feedback to
improve their assignments.
Summative Project: Each student will create his/her own website on the U.S.’ participation in
World War II using weebly.com

2. Criteria 3 2 1
Timeline Timeline includes Timeline includes at Timeline includes
at least five primary least three primary fewer than three
source visuals and source visuals and primary source
elaborates with at includes some visuals and very little
least one descriptive description of at least writing to describe
sentence on at least ten events relating to events relating to
10 critical events World War II. World War II.
relating to World War
II.
Video Video effectively Video illustrates a key Video includes fewer
illustrates a key World War II event than three visuals
World War II event and includes at least associated with a key
and includes at three visuals along World War II event
least five visuals with narration and/or and does not include
as well as relevant captions for at least narration or captions.
narration and/or one visual.
written captions of
each visual.
Content Both the timeline and Both the timeline The timeline
video demonstrate a and video show and/or the video
clear understanding an understanding do not show an
of important content of some important understanding of
related to WWII. content related to important content
Written information WWII. Most of what is related to WWII.
is original and written is original and Much writing lack
thoughtful. thoughtful. original thought.
View a sample of the summative assessment at:
http://www.dsteenhausen.weebly.com