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Plants and Animals

For your paper to be accepted, you must have a MLA 7 formatted 1. works cited, parenthetical citations, and a similarity report in Turnitin.com of 20% or less

Rubric Code: MBC996

By sbrinton

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Subject: Science

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 9-12

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	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts	Missing 0 pts
Research Topi 5 % Enter description	Good A class of plants or animals was chosen by the student. All ten species are grouped within this class.	Fair A class of plants or animals was chosen by the student. 8-9 species were within this topic.	Poor A class of plants and animals was chosen. Less than 8-9 species were within this topic.	Missing A class of plants and animals was not chosen by the student.
Classification 10 % Enter description	Good All classification information about your species are Included (Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, and Species).	Fair Missing one level of classification about your species.	Poor Missing 2-3 levels of classification	Missing Classification information is missing from the project.
Endangered Species 10 % Enter description	Good Research an endangered species needs to include . • its natural habitat •why it is endangered •what is being done to preserve it •number of individual organisms left in the wild •color photos of organism	Fair Information about endangered species in missing 1-2 categories.	Poor Information about endangered species is missing 3 categories.	Missing Project is missing information about an endangered species.
Convincing Argument 10 %	Good Fully convinces the reader that the endangered species is worth saving. Gives scientific reasoning to support the reasons.	Fair Convinces the reader with scientific reasoning.	Poor Uses nonscientific reasoning to convince the reader to save the endangered species	Missing Does not convince the reader to save the species.
Final Product 20 %	Good •Professional Looking Text in appropriate sizes for headings and information. Images are properly placed. •No spelling grammatical or information errors •	Fair 1-2 mistakes in formatting. Text for headings or body text is not appropriate. 1-2 mistakes in spelling.	Poor 3-4 mistakes in formatting. 3-4 or 3-4 mistakes in spelling.	Missing 5 or more mistakes in spelling or formatting.
Research 10 %	Good Student's notes are relevant to topic and are in student's own words. All notecards in well organized in Noodletools.	Fair Most of student's notes are relevant to topic and most notes are in student's own words. Notes are organized in Noodletools.	Poor Student's notes are not always relevant to topic and most notes are directly copied from sources. Notes are in Noodletools.	Missing Not done.
Works Cited 10 %	Good A works Cited Page is included on the back page of the product. The works cited page includes all research used in this project and follows the MLA 7 advanced format (i.e. use noodle tools). Uses 3 or more sources	Fair A works Cited Page is included on the back page of the product. The works cited page includes all research used in this project and follows the MLA 7 advanced format (i.e. use noodle tools). Uses 2 sources	Poor A works Cited Page is included on the back page of the product. The works cited page includes all research used in this project and follows the MLA 7 advanced format (i.e. use noodle tools). Uses 1 source	Missing Works Cited is missing or does not follow MLA 7 Advanced format. You must have a properly formated Works Cited page for your project to be excepted.
Citations 10 %	Good All specific information and images used in this project are properly cited. In text citations follow MLA 7 advanced.	Fair Specific information and images are properly cited, but your project is missing 1-2 citations of specific information.	Poor	Missing In Text citations are not used. The project will not be accepted without citations
Creativity 10 %	Good The project demonstrates excellent creative thinking and effort.	Fair The project demonstrates adequate creative thinking and effort.	Poor The project demonstrates little creative thinking and effort.	Missing The project demonstrates no creative thinking and effort.
Completed on-time 5 %	Good Project is submitted by the due date and has a 20% or lower on the Originality Report in Turnitin.com	Fair 1 day late	Poor 2 days late	Missing 3 or more days late

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