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The Cuban Missile Crisis

Role playing lesson about events during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Rubric Code: BX54WWW

By kzbornak

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Subject: Social Sciences

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

Cuban Missile Crisis Group Project
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Oral presentation	Excellent Student shows excellent enthusiasm, speaks clearly and loud enough to be heard by all, makes excellent eye contact, and shows "energy", i.e. walking around and using gestures for the entire presentation.	Good Student shows good enthusiasm, speaks loud and clear enough to be heard with minor corrections from the teacher (speak up please, etc), makes good eye contact, and shows "energy" , i.e. walking around and using gestures for most of the presentation.	Fair Student shows some enthusiasm, speaks somewhat loud and clear, makes some eye contact, and shows some "energy", i.e. walking around and using gestures.	Poor Student shows no enthusiasm, speaks quietly and not very clearly, makes little to no eye contact, and shows little to no "energy?, i.e. walking around and using gestures.
Understand role of their character	Excellent Understands role fully and makes a visibly strong attempt at bringing the character to life in the classroom.	Good Understands role well and makes a good attempt at bringing the character to life in the classroom.	Fair Somewhat understands role and makes fair attempt at bringing the character to life in the classroom.	Poor Understands little to nothing about the character's role and makes little to no attempt at bringing the character to life in the classroom.
Poster board/PPT contents	Excellent Project contains all required elements	Good Poster is missing one required element.	Fair Poster is missing two required elements.	Poor Poster has none of the required elements.
Poster board/PPT quality	Excellent Project has lots of images, colors, text is easy to read, no grammar mistakes.	Good Project has some images, most of the text is easy to read, 1-3 minor grammar mistakes.	Fair Project has few images, some of the text is easy to read, 4-6 minor grammar mistakes.	Poor Project has very few to no images, very little of the text is easy to read, 7+ grammar mistakes.