Visualizing Earth Assessment activities were given to each student at the begining of the year, and then again after the completion of the Visualizing Earth Unit.

Here is one example of how a student answered the questions before the unit and after completing the unit. This is his own work, only spelling errors were corrected.

This series of images were used in the assessment activities.

At the beginning of the year, on the first day of school, we were asked to do an Image Task Activity, where we had to look at images and decipher what the image was. All of the images were taken from a satellite, and to us, they just looked like a painting gone wrong. The whole first semester was spent studying things related to these images, such things like the electromagnetic spectrum, and satellite imagery. At the end of the first semester we were asked to redo the activity, to see what we had learned. There is a huge difference from the first activity and the second one. I can now explain each picture and tell you where it came form, how it was created, and what part of the spectrum it came from.

Pre-assessment

Post-assessment

Here are the original, on-line versions of the assessment activities.

Image Task #1

Image Task #2