iRubric: Mushroom Blog Post rubric

You thoroughly explain how to observe, collect, and identify mushrooms. You offer a unique perspective that shows attention to detail. You describe important lab techniques such as the importance of making a spore print. You discuss the resources available to identify the mushrooms.

You describe the characteristics to note when collecting mushrooms and how to go on a foray. You discuss how to identify the mushrooms and include specific techniques and resources you used.

You described how to observe and collect mushrooms, you also briefly discussed how to identify them. You could be more specific or go into depth more than you did.

You discuss observing, collecting, and identifying mushrooms but you fail to provide adequate detail.

Your blog is organized, well-written, posted on time, is free of grammatical errors, is easy to read, and uses professional language.

Your blog is organized. Your grammatical errors are limited. Your post is easy to read.

Your post shows a lack of organization or possibly has many grammatical errors. It could be more professional in nature.

Your post is unprofessional or very disorganized. Many grammatical errors are present. Perhaps your blog was not posted on time.