The Formative Assessment Process Toolkit was created by the Utah State Board of Education to support the Personalized Competency-Based Learning framework. The purpose of this toolkit is to increase capacity for educators to leverage the formative assessment process to inform personalized instruction and more effectively work with students to build competency.  *Updated April 2024.

Formative assessment can be a powerful day-to-day tool for teachers and students. This article discusses formative assessment as an approach to teaching and learning that uses feedback as its centerpiece in a supportive classroom context. Formative assessment is a practice that empowers teachers and students to give their best to enable learning.

An ionic bond involves the transfer of electrons from one atom to another. Ionic bonding gets its name from the word ion. An ion is a charged atom.

This video segment from Nature describes how glaciers eroded the bedrock of IrelandŒë_í_Œ_ landscape.

This is a science lesson plan for introducing upper elementary students to the different forms of energy.

This task contrasts the usefulness of four equivalent expressions. Students first have to confirm that the given expressions for the radioactive substance are equivalent. Then they have to explain the significance of each expression in the context of the situation.

There are many different ways to write exponential expressions that describe the same quantity, in this task the amount of a radioactive substance after t years. Depending on what aspect of the context we need to investigate, one expression of the quantity may be more useful than another. This task contrasts the usefulness of four equivalent expressions. Students first have to confirm that the given expressions for the radioactive substance are equivalent. Then they have to explain the significance of each expression in the context of the situation.

Confederate gunners fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina, on April 12, 1861. Fort Sumter fell 34 hours later. It was a bloodless opening to the bloodiest war in American history.

This three-act math task utilizes videos and questioning to help students explore geometry and angles.

Trees within a city can help reduce urban heat, control stormwater, and provide habitat to local wildlife. As climate conditions change, a Chicago group is working to enhance its urban forest so that the city can continue to receive these benefits.

As a Google Admin, learn how to forward incoming messages using address maps.

This video segment adapted from NOVA shows how scientists use the fossil record to trace when early human ancestors and related species began walking on two legs instead of four, and to determine whether they were more apelike or human in appearance.

Students will use their knowledge about fossils to arrange fossil pictures in sequence from oldest to youngest.

When a plant or animal is buried by sediment, it decays over time and leaves a space. A cast is formed when this space is filled by sediments or minerals that harden over time.

Index fossils are fossils of organisms that lived during the same general period of time. Geologists assume that layers of rock containing these organisms are close in age.

When a plant or animal is buried by sediment, it decays over time and leaves a space, referred to as a mold.

Petrification is the process by which cells in once-living things are replaced by minerals in water, turning the preserved part o stone.