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Animal Report and Chart

Students are selecting an animal, researching and writing about their animal, and designing a poster board, brochure, or booklet to aid them in their presentation. The presentation should tell about where their animal lives, what their animal eats, what their animal looks like, and what is special about this animal. Students may write their report notes on index cards to help them remember the important facts about their animal during their presentation.

Rubric Code: JBB673

By ShonWhite

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Subject: Science

Type: Project

Grade Levels: K-5

Animal Report
	Beginning 10 pts	Developing 12 pts	Complete 15 pts
Research Notecards Planning Work Ethic	Beginning Student did not complete all task cards, did little planning, and not enough information on cards.	Developing Student was on task most of the time. Needed a little assistance to complete task cards.	Complete Student worked diligently to complete all task cards. Stayed focused with planning and research.
What The Animal Looks Like Description	Beginning Description of animal is inaccurate or does not give any important details No picture of animal, or picture was very small.	Developing Gives a description of animal but leaves out a couple of important features.	Complete Gives an accurate description of how the animal looks.
About The Animal's Needs Prey/Predator	Beginning Does not list any items that the animal eats.	Developing Lists one item that the animal eats.	Complete Lists two or more items that the animal eats
Where The Animal Lives Habitat	Beginning Gives little or no details about where the animal is found and includes very few facts about the animals habitiat.	Developing Gives some details about where the animal is found in the world,but only includes some facts about the animals habitat.	Complete Gives details about where in the world the animal is found, and tells many facts about it's habitat.
Animal Project Poster Brochure Booklet	Beginning No pictures, or pictures are too small to see, many of the important facts are not included in the project.	Developing Has one picture and most of the important facts are included on project	Complete Has two or more pictures and they are large enough to see and all the important facts are included on project.
What is special about this animal Interesting Facts	Beginning No reason is given.	Developing Student has given very few details explaining why their animal is special.	Complete Student has given lots of details explaining why their animal special.
Conventions and Spelling Neatness Visual appearance	Beginning Numerous spelling and punctuation errors. Work is not legible.	Developing Has a few spelling and punctuation errors. Work is legible.	Complete Student used correct spelling and punctuation. Had neat and legible work.

Keywords:

Animal Project

Subjects:

Science

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Project

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