Robot Assessments

A good way to begin the year with a Kindergarten art class is to give them an assessment disguised as a project. This allows you, as a teacher, to see their skill level, creativity, ingenuity, and level of independence your new students have. Doing this will help you plan future lessons and differentiate instruction. In this post, you will see an example piece as well as a free download for the printable to use in your class can be found at the bottom of this post.

Materials

• Robot shape printable (one per student or to share; there will be extra pieces per student so if you want to conserve paper and/or ink)
• Black paper to glue the shapes to
• Coloring materials (I use crayon with kindergarten)
• Glue (I prefer glue sticks, but white glue works as well)
• Scissors

Directions

1. Give each student the three pages of shapes. They will not use all
   the shapes
2. They can either cut out the shapes first or color the shapes first that they want to use
3. Glue the shapes into a robot (color if not done already if using glue stick. White glue wait till it is dry)
4. Draw the face and any details they want (optional)

In the directions, I said that students could either color the shapes first or cut out the shapes and color afterwards. For this example, the student chose what shapes he wanted to use and colored them. If you complete the activity this way, students can always go back and color more shapes if they forgot to add something (ex. forgot to add an arm)

As students are completing the work, be sure to watch to see the progress of the students and the skills they are using.

• Are they coloring even and complete?
• Do they stay inside the lines? (even if they end up cutting the shape out)
• Can they cut on a straight line?
• Can they cut circular shapes?
• When they glue, do they glue around the edges or just in the middle?
• Do they need your help with deciding what shapes to use?
• Are they motivated to complete the project without prompting?
• Did they add anything extra to their robot or did they just use the shapes provided?

These observations will be helpful when deciding groups, projects to complete, as well as time needed for directions and clean up. Please feel free to use the free download below or create your own shapes using google docs or word.

Free Download of Robot Assessment