Description

When students need a meaningful way to show what they know, pull a card from Demonstrate Understanding.

This dark blue Level Up Teacher Tool Deck includes creative, adaptable activities that help students demonstrate learning through products, performances, explanations, and authentic applications. These strategies give students more choice while providing teachers with clear evidence of understanding.

Use this deck when:

• A unit or major topic is ending
• Students need choice
• You want alternatives to traditional presentations
• You need authentic evidence of learning
• Students are ready to apply what they have learned
• You want assessment options beyond a test or worksheet

What Is Included

This digital deck includes creative demonstration activities such as:

• Visual summaries and infographics
• Podcasts, interviews, and recorded responses
• Trading cards and collection projects
• Models, exhibits, and design challenges
• Written and multimedia products
• Creative retellings and demonstrations
• Student-choice assessment options

Each activity includes:

• Estimated activity length
• Suggested grouping
• Amount of teacher preparation
• Guidance on when the activity works best
• Step-by-step directions
• Suggested classroom applications
• A quick twist or variation
• Suggested target-language readiness for World Language classrooms

Creative Assessment for Any Subject

The activities are intentionally content-neutral and can be adapted for:

• Elementary and secondary classrooms
• Math
• Science
• Social studies
• ELA
• Fine arts
• World languages
• Career and technical education
• Intervention and enrichment groups

Use the cards at the end of a lesson, text, topic, project, or unit. Teachers provide the content and learning goals; the cards provide creative structures for students to demonstrate their understanding.

Why Teachers Will Love This Deck

Demonstrate Understanding helps teachers move beyond repetitive presentations and traditional assessments. The cards provide flexible ways for students to explain, create, apply, and communicate what they have learned while giving teachers useful evidence of student understanding.

Use the deck for formative assessment, summative assessment, project options, review, or student-choice activities.

Digital Product

This purchase includes the digital Demonstrate Understanding card deck. No physical cards will be shipped with this purchase.

Prefer printed cards? Somewhere to Share will begin offering physical Level Up™ card decks in November 2026.

Looking for the Complete Collection?

This deck is also available as part of the Level Up Teacher Tool Deck Bundle, which includes all six digital decks:

• Start the Conversation
• Change the Energy
• Strengthen the Learning
• Deepen the Thinking
• Demonstrate Understanding
• Middle Learners