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Teacher Resources and Assessment 

    Listed below are suggested resources and assessment techniques.

              Science and Math Resources

             1.  National Gardening Association
             2.  Teacher Tools
             3.  Agriculture in the Classroom
                4.  Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators
                5.  Guidelines for Rubric Development
             6.  Detective LePlant
                7.  Beakman and Jax Science
             8.  Mathematics Encyclopedia
             9.  Mathematics Education

     Among the suggested alternative way of evaluating your students, we recommend the following:


        A.  Laboratory Performance Rubrics that address:
                1.  Laboratory Safety
                2.  Cooperative group task performance
                3.  Scientific Method performance
                4.  Record Keeping

        B.  Concept Aquisition, Test and quizzes to address:
                1.  Instrumentation and SI units
                2.  Living organism needs
                3.  pH
                4.  Math process and analysis of graph and charts
                5.  Diversity of plants
                6.  Parts of plant

        C.  Oral presentation rubrics that address:
                1.  Knowledge of content
                2.  Organization
                3.  Accurate analysis and interpretation of data charts
                4.  Real life application of results and conclusion

        D.  Written prompts, student project journals that address:
                1.  Haiku
                2.  Research
                3.  Laboratory reports
                4.  Observations
                5.  Concept applications
                6.  Visual representations
                7.  Extended activities
                8.  Reflections
 

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