The fire story formative assessment is used to explore students' thinking about the question "what affects chemical change?" through a real-world problem. This formative assessment specifically probes students' understanding of energy and phase changes. There are several different explanations using different chemistry concepts that could be used to explain the phemomenon explained in the story.
Formative assessment is an important component of teaching as it enables teachers to enhance student learning. The written work that students produce on formative assessment tasks can be used to uncover student thinking and inform the decisions teachers make on how to support individual student learning.
The Exploding Pringles can design challenge is an open-ended formative assessment developed by the ACCT team, which tasks students with designing an explosion that produces the maximum boom within a Pringles container with a fixed volume.
Here you can read a description of the Structure-Property Relationships thread of the Chemical Thinking framework.
Here you can find resources related to the ACCT project and the ACCT team.
Here you can read about the advisory board for the ACCT project
Here you can read about the ACCT evaluation team.
Here you can read about past members of the ACCT team.
Here you can read about current members of the ACCT team.
Here you can learn more about the ACCT project and the people involved.
