2016 Testing – Grades 3-8

Essential Church School Offices 4000 Eagle Point Corporate Drive, Birmingham, AL, United States

Please insure your student's participation is secured by February 25th. Essential will be offering onsite administration of the Iowa Assessments™ Form E for grades 3-8 only.  Students will need to be at the testing site by 8:45am, and parents/guardians should pick up by noon each day. The $50 administration fee covers the costs of securing all the test forms and results, as well as the administration of the test. All students who are tested must be home educated and currently enrolled in a church school (cover school) in the state of Alabama. Why are you not offering the Stanford 10 or the Aspire? The Stanford 10 is no longer current and will be phasing out next year.  The Aspire test is not available to our school at this time.  We are offering the Iowa Assessments™ and following the test choice of a majority of private Christian schools in Alabama. What is Iowa Assessments™? Iowa Assessments offers timed standard achievement tests with national norms.  Click here for a document which shows the areas tested. REGISTER HERE:

$50

Moundville Park Tour & Archaeology Program

Moundville Archaeological Park Mound State Pkwy, Moundville, Alabama, United States

Join us for an afternoon of learning and exploring history - more specifically history in Alabama! Learn how archaeologists conduct their research and the tools that they use to uncover the past. Your class will learn the basics of archaeology while also building on their math, geometry & historical knowledge. We will excavate a mock archaeological unit and discuss current trends in archaeological research. We have reserved a site tour of the Native American mounds, as well as an archaeology program for our group.  If costs are an overwhelming issue for our families, then we can remove the archaeology program for a simple site tour.  Please communicate with us if this is an issue that is preventing your participation.  

$6.50 – $23.00