iRubric: Final Plot Project Rubric

Your portfolio includes all of the required sections. It is easy for the reader to see the changes that took place throughout the year. Your portfolio is neat and is thoughtful in how you organized it. All of your records are found in the end for reference.

Your portfolio has all of the necessary components and is organized. Your contextual information is included. You could have paid more attention to detail or it could have highlighted the changes. You show evidence of plants, animals, fungi, and protists, but you could be more clear regarding what you found. Your records are included.

Your portfolio might be missing one or more of the required components or perhaps it is disorganized. It might be difficult to understand the changes that the plot underwent based on how you presented it. Perhaps your experiment could be more thoughtful.

Your portfolio lacks organization and/or several of the required components. It is difficult to understand how your plot changed throughout the year. Your experiment might not be testable, or is missing some of the components of a good experiment.

Your reflection is thoughtful. You included specific observations and your reactions to those observations. Your reflections show evidence of critical thinking and curiosity about the changes that happened over the course of the project. You both ask questions and answer questions in your reflection, and you make inferences based on your observations. You leave with questions left unanswered and your overall impressions of how you have grown as a scientist throughout your time in the woods.

Your final reflection includes your specific observations throughout the year and your reactions to the observations. You answer questions you had throughout the year. You could be more curious or demonstrate more attention to detail. Your reflection is posted both on your group wiki and on your personal blog.

You include specific observations throughout the year and you answer some of the questions you had. You highlight the changes that the plot went through during the project. Your response could be more thoughtful or include more inferences based on your observations.

Your reflection is simply a summary of your observations and data. Your response lacks critical thinking or curiosity. You fail to ask and answer questions about your data and observations.

In under five minutes you highlighted the changes you observed throughout the project. You summarized the changes and you both asked questions and answered questions about your data. Each group member had a role in the presentation and you spoke to your audience rather than reading the screen. Your presentation was well-prepared.

Your group presentation was under five minutes. You summarized the main changes that took place. Perhaps not all of your group members had a role or your presentation could have been better thought-out.

Your presentation could have been more organized or planned better. Perhaps all of your members did not have a role. Perhaps you could have summarized in a more efficient manner or chosen the data you presented more carefully.

Your presentation lacked clarity, organization, thought, and/or completeness.