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Sample Assessment Items
This is not meant to be printed off and given as a test…this document is to give you ideas
of how this standard might be assessed. Please use these as an example when you are
developing your own formative assessments. Remember formative assessment is to be
given throughout the teaching of a standard to help you guide your instruction based on
students needs. A good formative assessment should have a mix of multiple choice as
well as open ended.
S5L1 Students will classify organisms into groups and relate how they determined the
groups with how and why scientists use classification.
b. Demonstrate how plants are sorted into groups.
Multiple Choice:
You observe a very tall tree growing in the forest. How would you best describe it?
a. invertebrate
b. nonvascular
c. unicellular
d. vascular
Answer: d
Pine trees, flowering plants, and ferns all belong to which division in the plant kingdom?
a. nonvascular
b. soft stems
c. vascular
d. woody stems
Answer: c
Redwood trees can grow to be very tall. They can grow so tall because they___________.
a. are plants with tubes
b. are plants that do not have tubes
c. are plants that have flowers with seeds
d. are plants that loose their leaves in winter
Answer: a
What kinds of trees lose their leaves?
a. deciduous
b. evergreen
c. nonvascular
d. non-woody
Answer: a
How do scientists classify plants?
a. by physical structure
b. by their chloroplasts
c. by the color of their flowers
d. by the type of insects they attract
Answer: a
What are the two main groups of plants?
a. ferns and moss
b. spores and seeded
c. seeded and seedless
d. vascular and non-vascular
Answer: d
Ben found this plant in the woods.
Which information will Ben use to classify the plant?
a. Its mass and volume
b. What kind of soil it grows in
c. The shapes of its leaves and flowers
d. How deep its roots are in the ground
Answer: c
What does vascular tissue do?
a. keep the plant in place
b. make food for the plant
c. protect the plant from the sun
d. move water and food inside the plant
Answer: d
Which group do flowering plants belong to?
a. ferns
b. mosses
c. seed plants
d. coniferous plants
Answer: c
Open ended:
How can plants be sorted into groups?
How are the blood vessels in your body like the tubes in vascular plants?
Could a very tall tree be a nonvascular plant? Explain your answer.
List the names of five plants that you have seen in your backyard. Are there features that
are shared by some of these plants? How could you sort these plants into groups?