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Ocean Animal Report Ocean Animal Report Students selected an ocean animal and began researching in order to learn more. The report should describe where their animal lives, what their animal eats, what the animal looks like, and what the adaptations to the habitat are. The students wrote a report about their animal to present to the class. Rubric Code: NX2AWBA By jsmith9676 Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Science Type: Writing Grade Levels: 6-8

Animal Written Report
	Beginning 1 pts	Developing 2 pts	Complete 3 pts
What the Animal Looks Like	Beginning Description of animal is inaccurate or does not give any important details. <BR> No picture of animal,or picture was very small.	Developing Gives a description of animal but leaves out a few important features. Picture is present but not labeled.	Complete Gives an accurate description of how the animal looks, and has detailed pictures with important parts labeled.
About the Animal's Habitat	Beginning Gives little or no details about where the animal is found and includes very few facts about the animal's habitiat.	Developing Gives some details about where the animal is found in the ocean,but only includes some facts about the animal's habitat.	Complete Details about where in the ocean the animal is found are given, science words learned in class are used, and many facts are given about this specific habitat.
About Animal's Early Life.	Beginning Inaccurate and incomplete information is given about the animals early life.	Developing Information is correct but not complete about the animals early life.	Complete Accurate and complete information about the animals early life.
About the Animal's Needs	Beginning Does not list any items that the animal eats or how it eats.	Developing Lists one item that the animal eats and explains how it gets to its food.	Complete Gives list of items that animal eats, how it gets to its prey, and includes pictures or additional description of the food scources.
Neatness / Presentation of Research	Beginning The written work looks very sloppy and cluttered.	Developing The written work has some structure, work is done neatly.	Complete The written work looks very structured with paragraphs and full sentences. The work is easy to read and was done very neatly.
Name/Nickname/Scientific Name	Beginning None are there	Developing One or two	Complete All are present.
Position in Food Chain	Beginning Position in food chain is not there.	Developing Half of it is there.	Complete The animal's position in the food chain is stated.
Species count/What are the species?	Beginning Neither are listed.	Developing One is listed.	Complete Both are listed.
Three interesting facts	Beginning One fact.	Developing Two facts.	Complete Three facts.