Exit Slip - Inquiry Thoughts

Having discussed in this lesson the importance and significance of assessment, I would like to include some sort of discussion of it to my inquiry project. Earth Science is a discipline that has got a major component of abstraction, so field trips in my opinion, are of great benefit for the students. I believe that my inquiry project will still be about the relevancy of the practical component of geology, However, I would like to think about how can we assess students in this particular and interesting subject. Moreover, I think that the idea of giving them freedom to choose a topic of their own interest of the subject, and build a project based on that, allows me to assess them in more ways that just grading a test. I would like to evaluate their development of the project, individually and as a group. I believe that if I am able to combine a nice field trip where they can all observe and feel the geology in a different way, and from that curiosity that they will feel, choose a subject that called their attention, I would be finding a way of assessing them. I do not like the idea of marking them for the sake of marking, and I think that the education system is looking for alternatives and growth mindset in students, so I feel motivated with my idea of inquiry.