Thursday, March 30, 2023

Pop Test!

 One of my colleagues gave her students pop tests!  I thought that was hysterical.  Her students were less enthused.  I issue pop tests to see if kids are retaining skills.  For example, if I distribute an aluminum can and a scale, can the teen calculate the number of moles in the can?  Today’s pop test was ionic blocks, formulas, and their names.  Each teen rolled a pair of dice and wrote and named the compound.  The only reason was to see who retains those skills.



  

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