Questions to Ask Ourselves

Here are some questions we should be asking ourselves while self evaluating.

•Are you satisfied with your learning?

• Are you satisfied that you demonstrated your knowledge and skill?

• How does your work compare to the expectations on the rubric? 

• With which parts of the assignment (project, performance, etc.) were you most satisfied? 

• How closely does your work on this assignment (project, performance, etc.) reflect your learning? 

• Why do you think this assignment worked for you? 

• Were there any parts that didn’t work? 

• How did you do the assignment/project? Be specific. 

• Were the strategies that you used effective in helping you reach your goals? o What learning strategies were helpful? Explain. o What would you have to add to learn more, do better, etc.? 

• On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate your effort? 

• Did the amount of time, effort and strategies used help you reach your goal? 

• If you were to do this over, how could it be improved? 

• As a teacher, what can I do to help you? 

• What can I do to increase the value of this assignment/project, etc.?

STEM water slide design.

We recently incorporated a Stem design challenge to a fun Friday. The goal was for us to make a water slide for a small lego firefighter out of materials found in the maker's space. Our designs were judged on safety and hight. Our group was the last to choose materials so we only got hot glue wood scraps and cardboard. This limited the things we were able to design. We used the wood to build up a tower and hung a long trough of cardboard. Unfortunately, almost all of it fell apart before we could test it because cardboard is not waterproof. Next time I would love to get in there earlier and get better materials. I would also like to use tape to waterproof the cardboard.

A better design than ours that utilized waterproof materials.