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Test Prep Review: GED Science Practice Test

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Main Website:

https://www.testprepreview.com/

Activity Website:

https://www.testprepreview.com/ged_practice.htm

Activity Description

Source: GED Practice Test Review page (License: Protected by Copyright (c) [i.e. screenshot])

This activity involves a GED Science practice test, which can be used as an in-class assessment, printed assessment without answers, or supplemental student resources following instruction. The site was originally set up for the 2002 GED; however, many of the modules are beneficial in preparing for 2014 GED. All assessments have answers and explanations. This is a commercial site and their intention is to sell their products; however, the practice tests are free.

Preparation

Go to Test Prep Review The Self-Assessment Modules are found at the bottom of the page. Select “GED Science Practice Test ” or other appropriate practice tests.
Be sure the site is not blocked at your school if you want to project the questions on an interactive whiteboard or screen. The test is not interactive and all answers and explanations are found at the bottom of the Web page.
Copy and paste the test questions to a word processing program of choice and make copies for your class.

Teacher Tips

This can also be used in a computer lab; however, students will need an answer sheet to record their answers. Please note that the answers are found at the bottom of the Web page.

More Ways

There are several other Science practice tests as well as many other self-assessment modules that that could be useful.
Check the Test Anxiety practice under Test Preparation on the left side list (almost at the bottom of the list) to give students some tips on alleviating test anxiety.

Program Areas

ASE: High School Equivalency Preparation
ABE: Adult Basic Education

Levels

All Levels

Lesson Plan

Warm-up

Engagement

Activity:

- Begin with a brief discussion on the importance of science in everyday life.
- Ask students to share any recent science-related news or facts they know.
- Play a short science trivia game to energize the class and get them thinking about scientific concepts.

Introduction

Objective: Introduce the purpose and format of the GED Science Practice Test.
Activity:

- Explain that the activity will involve a GED Science practice test, which will help them prepare for the 2014 GED.
- Discuss the relevance of the practice test to their overall preparation.
- Highlight that the test includes answers and explanations, which will aid in understanding.

Presentation

Objective: Present the instructions and content area.
Activity:

- Go to the Test Prep Review website and navigate to the Self-Assessment Modules at the bottom of the page.
- Select the “GED Science Practice Test” or another appropriate practice test.
- Copy and paste the test questions into a word processing program and make copies for the class.

Practice

Engagement

Objective: Allow students to practice answering test questions individually and collaboratively.
Activity:

- Distribute paper copies of the test to each student.
- Give students time to answer the questions on their own.
- Divide students into small groups to share answers.
- Project the questions on a screen or whiteboard.
- Select a student to read the passage aloud.
- Highlight important information and vocabulary in the passages.
- Choose a student to read the question and ask for volunteers to provide answers.
- Discuss each answer as a class, ensuring that students understand the reasoning behind the correct answers.

Evaluation

Objective: Assess student understanding and provide feedback.
Activity:

- Collect the completed tests and review the answers.
- Provide individual feedback on each student's performance.
- Discuss common mistakes and areas of difficulty with the whole class.
- Emphasize the explanations provided at the bottom of the Web page to reinforce learning.

Application

Enhancement Extension

Objective: Encourage students to apply what they have learned to similar tasks and real-life situations.
Activity:

- Introduce additional science practice tests and self-assessment modules from the Test Prep Review website.
- Assign the Test Anxiety practice module for homework to help students manage test-related stress.
- Encourage students to regularly practice with these resources to build confidence and improve their test-taking skills.

Subjects

Language Arts - Reading
- Analysis
- Comprehension
- Inference and Interpretation
- Synthesis and Generalization
Math
- Algebra
- Calculus
- Consumer Math
- Conversions
- Decimals
- Fractions
- Geometry
- Integrated Math
- Math Electives
- Percentages
- Pre-Algebra
- Proportions
- Trigonometry
- Whole Number Skills
Mathematics
- Algebraic Concepts
- Data Analysis/Probability/Statistics
- Measurement/Geometry
- Numbers and Operations on Numbers
Reading
- Consumer Skills
- Critical Thinking/Decision Making
- Employability
- Government
- Health
- Learning to Learn
- Vocabulary
Science
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Earth Science
- General Science
- Health and Life Science
- Physical Science
- Physics
- Science Electives
Social Studies
- American Government
- Economics
- Psychology
- Social Studies Electives
- U.S. History
- World History

Standards

Number and Operations: Base Ten
- 1.NBT.1-3 - Understand place value.
- 1.NBT.4-6 - Use place value understanding and the properties of operations to add and subtract.
- 2.NBT.2-4 - Understand place value.
- 2.NBT.6-9 - Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.
- 3.NBT.1-3 - Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
- 4.NBT.1-3 - Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.
- 4.NBT.4-6 - Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.
- 5.NBT.1-4 - Understand the place value system.
- 5.NBT.5-7 - Perform operations with multi-digit whole numbers and with decimals to hundredths.
Operations and Algebraic Thinking
- 1.OA.2 - Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- 1.OA.3-4 - Understand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
- 1.OA.5-6 - Add and subtract with 20.
- 1.OA.7-8 - Work with addition and subtraction.
- 2.OA.1 - Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
- 2.OA.2 - Add and subtract with 20.
- 3.OA.1-4 - Represent and solve problems involving multiplication and division.
- 3.OA.5-6 - Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
- 3.OA.7 - Multiply and divide within 100.
- 3.OA.8-9 - Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
- 4.OA.1-3 - Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.
- 4.OA.4 - Gain familiarity with factors and multiples.
- 4.OA.5 - Generate and analyze patterns.
- 5.OA.1-2 - Write and interpret numerical expressions.
Geometry
- K.G.4 - Analyze, compare, create, compose shapes.
- 1.G.2 - Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- 2.G.1,3 - Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- 3.G.1-2 - Reason with shapes and their attributes.
- 4.G.1 - Draw and identify lines and angles, and classify shapes by properties of their lines and angles.
- 5.G.1-2 - Graph points on the coordinate plane to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
- 5.G.3 - Classify two-dimensional figures into categories based on their properties.
- 6.G.1,3-4 - Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving area, surface area, and volume.
- 7.G.1 - Draw, construct, and describe geometrical figures and describe the relationships between them.
- 7.G.4-6 - Solve real-life and mathematical problems involving angle, measure, area, surface area, and volume
- 8.G.2,4-5 - Understand congruence and similarity using physical models, transparencies, or geometry software.
- 8.G.7-8 - Understand and apply the Pythagorean Theorem.
Measurement and Data
- 1.MD.2 - Measure lengths indirectly and by iterating length units.
- 2.MD.2-4 - Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.
- 2.MD.6 - Relate addition and subtraction to length.
- 3.MD.1-2 - Solve problems involving measurement and estimation of intervals of time, liquid volumes, and masses of objects.
- 3.MD.3-4 - Represent and interpret data.
- 3.MD.5-7d - Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate to area of multiplication and addition.
- 3.MD.8 - Geometric measurement: recognize perimeter as an attribute of plane figures and distinguish between linear and area measures.
- 4.MD.2-3 - Solve problems involving measurement and conversion of measurements from a larger unit to a smaller unit.
- 4.MD.5-7 - Geometric measurement: understand concepts of angle and measure angles.
- 5.MD.1 - Convert like measurement units within a given measurement system.
- 5.MD.2 - Represent and interpret data.
- 5.MD.3-5c - Geometric measurement: understand concepts of volume and relate volume to multiplication and to addition.
Number and Operations: Fractions
- 3.NF.1-3d - Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
The Number System
- 6.NS.2-4 - Compute fluently with multi-digit numbers and find common factors and multiples.
- 6.NS.1 - Apply and extend previous understandings of multiplication and division to divide fractions by fractions.
- 6.NS.5-8 - Apply and extend previous understandings of numbers to the system of rational numbers.
- 7.NS.1-3 - Apply and extend previous understandings of operations with fractions to add, subtract, multiply, and divide rational numbers.
- 8.NS.2 - Know that there are numbers that are not rational, and approximate them by rational numbers.
- 6.RP.3-3d - Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
- 7.RP.1-3 - Analyze proportional relationships and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
Number and Operations: Fractions
- 4.NF.1-2 - Extend understanding of fraction equivalence and ordering.
- 4.NF.3-4c - Build fractions from unit fractions by applying and extending previous understanding of operations on whole numbers.
- 4.NF.6-7 - Understand decimal notation for fractions, and compare decimal fractions.
- 5.NF.1-2 - Use equivalent fractions as strategy to add and subtract fractions.
- 5.NF.3-7c - Apply and extend previous understanding of multiplication and division to multiply and divide fractions.
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
- 6.RP.1-2 - Understand ratio concepts and use ratio reasoning to solve problems.
Expressions and Equations
- 6.EE.1-4 - Apply and extend previous understandings of arithmetic to algebraic expressions.
- 6.EE.5-8 - Reason about and solve one-variable equations and inequalities.
- 6.EE.9 - Represent and analyze quantitative relationships between dependent and independent variables.
- 7.EE.1-2 - Use properties of operations to generate equivalent expressions.
- 7.EE.3-4b - Solve real-life and mathematical problems using numerical and algebraic expressions and equations.
- 8.EE.1-4 - Work with radicals and integer exponents.
- 8.EE.5 - Understand the connections between proportional relationships, lines, and linear equations.
- 8.EE.7-8c - Analyze and solve linear equations and pairs of simultaneous linear equations.
Statistics and Probability
- 6.SP.1-3 - Develop understanding of statistical variability.
- 6.SP.4 - Summarize and describe distributions.
- 6.SP.5 - Summarize and describe distributions.
- 7.SP.1-2 - Use random sampling to draw inferences about a population.
- 7.SP.3-4 - Draw informal comparative inferences about two populations.
- 7.SP.5-8b - Investigate chance processes and develop, use, and evaluate probability models.
- 8.SP.1-4 - Investigate patterns of association in bivariate data.
Functions
- 8.F.1,3 - Define, evaluate, and compare functions.
- 8.F.4-5 - Use functions to model relationships between quantities.
Number and Quantity: The Real Number System
- N.RN.2 - Extend the properties of exponents to rational exponents.
Number and Quantity: Quantities
- N.Q.1,3 - Reason quantitatively and use units to solve problems.