​For week one of this unit, students will be assessed in various ways. These include lab reports, poster presentations, exit tickets, podcasts, and graphic organizers. Assessments for this week are progress-monitoring, and will divulge what students have learned about the basics of air pollution. These assessments will help students understand the essential question, what is pollution?

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Week two of the integrated unit on air pollution will allow for more cooperative work and integrated lessons across content areas, which also means assessments will be integrated as well. Students will work all week to be able to answer the essential question, what are the effects of pollution? Similar to week one of the unit, the methods of assessment used during week two include lab reports, exit slips, poster presentations, and graphic organizers. Journal entries will also be used this week. By the end of week two, students will be able to demonstrate their understanding of the effects of pollution through their performance on multiple assessments across content areas.

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During the final week of the unit, teams will identify a problem and design an action plan that can be addressed in a PSA (public service announcement) as their final integrated thematic assessment. They will be given the chance to decide how they would like to communicate their action plan to the public. For example, stop-motion, theatre, dance, music video, skit, and news broadcast are all possible formats for their PSA. Students will collaborate and develop their PSA over the course of this final week of the unit. With this PSA, students will be answering the essential question, what can be done about pollution?