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Engineering Design Process: Newspaper Towers

This rubric is used to assess the students' use of the engineering design process for designing a Newspaper Tower.

Rubric Code: QX3352X

By bperez15

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Subject: Science

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

Engineering Design Process
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Good 3 pts	Excellent 4 pts
Plan	Poor Little or no evidence that you were planning. You did not plan what you were going to build.	Fair Some evidence of a plan. There was some thought to materials/building, but not really thought out.	Good Good evidence of planning done, but the plan wasn't quite complete.	Excellent I can really see what you are going to be building. Your sketch is very detailed and is easy to understand
Design and Build	Poor Your design lacked materials that were needed. It was really hard for me to tell what you built or were building.	Fair Some materials were used correctly.	Good Good use of the materials and plan. The tower was nice and well put together, but there were parts that weren't well made.	Excellent Great use of materials! You maximized your use of materials and created a great tower.
Reflections	Poor You did not answer the analysis questions.	Fair You started your reflection but did not complete it.	Good You answered all analysis questions but not in a great detail.	Excellent You answered all analysis question in great detail.