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Backward mapping and assessments

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Backward mapping and assessments

- [Voiceover] Including assessment questions at the end of each day's PowerPoint presentation gives you the opportunity to ensure that all your slides up until then are preparing your students to answer those questions. Some call this backwards mapping, backwards design, or beginning with the end in mind. Let's take a look at a concrete example of this. Say that you're about to embark on a unit, and at the end, you're planning of having a unit test, in which learners will identify a question that they have about plant life and then use the scientific method to address their inquiry. You're also planning to have them write a few paragraphs to explain their process. So my first step then would be to create a slide within a PowerPoint presentation that lists this goal. Then, I can start creating other slides to reflect other necessary check-in points that lead up to that end goal. In this example, in order to prepare for the unit test, learners will need to have explored questions about…

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