GRASPS Grade 2

GRASPS is a performance task implemented every term that stands for the following:
G - goal
R - role
A - audience
S - situation
P - product
S - score

These actually describes what the project is about, what the students are expected to do, and how they will be assessed. During the second term, the Grade 2 classes covered Basic Food Groups.

To assess the students on their knowledge of healthy food, I asked them to pretend they are about to open a healthy restaurant and they will have to plan their menu offerings. I required them to name their healthy dishes, add a description and determine the price. I planned to assess them according to neatness, organization, content and punctuality of submission.

This proposal received positive feedback (Thanks so much, Ms. Marj, you really made my day that time!) I knew this can turn out to be very promising. The suggestions would be ideal for the next academic year.



I gave the students ample time for their project and here is one of the many excellent projects I received:





I was initially thinking of something that will make the students engaged and not resort to asking their parents to do it for them. I patterned this against the Facebook game Restaurant City where one has to collect certain ingredients to prepare a dish. I gave higher grades to those that were obviously made by them. There were still some students who had to be reminded several times to submit and only managed to cut out pictures of food from magazines without any description nor price.

Admittedly, I could have prepared better for this project, by showing them a finished product rather than merely describing and drawing it on the blackboard. Also, it would have been helpful to dedicate one session to help them work on it, also to make sure that each one already started with the project. I have to be aware of the time constraints and maybe it would have been better if I started this project in the middle of the term rather than the last three weeks.