Assessment in our Map Making Project

Student assessment in our Synergy Project:

Students will be assessed on their contribution to the Google community map, as well as through their own written reflections on connection to place. Each student has done a practice post on a non-public copy of the map to ensure that they can manipulate the technology and has begun to brainstorm a list of local places that they connect to. Written reflections (or video reflections) will occur on student-created blogs that can then be linked to their uploaded map photos. The Geography 12 students have specific learning outcomes that describe interconnections between humanity and the natural environment and they describe these connections in their blogs.Project assessment:

As with all large multi-disciplinary projects, ours continues to evolve as new students become involved and new ideas emerge. It was designed to have this flexibility which allows us to adapt quickly.  Each time we have one of the Synergy group phone calls with the other schools, our Parkland team meets to review the current moment of the project and make recommendations for the coming month. This has been helpful to identify both problem areas and what’s working well.  Our current difficulty is finding ways to incorporate Indigenous students and community members