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Illustrating an Environment

1. Draw a picture of an environment where you spend time. 2. Name the environment. 3. List the biotic and abiotic factors in the environment. 4. Describe at least five interactions that take place in the environment. 5. Describe at least one cycle that occurs in this environment. 6. Describe how an environmental engineer might interact with the environment you drew.

Rubric Code: UX5B62A

By MidEDScience

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Subject: Science

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

Category
	Excellent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts	Ineffective 0 pts
Illustration of the Environment	Excellent In depth, detailed illustration of the environment with an appropriate name, clear details, colored and clear to the observer without having to read the description	Good In depth, detailed illustration of the environment with an appropriate name, clear details, colored, the observer may have to read the description to identify the environment	Fair Illustration of the environment with an appropriate name, few details, colored, the observer has to read the description to identify the environment	Poor Illustration is named, but sloppy, lacks details, observer cannot tell what it is	Ineffective Did not submit an illustration and/or name
Abiotic and Biotic Factors	Excellent Lists and describes 5 biotic and 5 abiotic factors in depth	Good Lists and describes 5 biotic and 5 abiotic factors, but lacks details	Fair Lists less than 5 biotic and/or abiotic factors and has limited details	Poor Lists 2 or less biotic or abiotic factors, they are described vaguely	Ineffective Does not list biotic or abiotic factors, they are not described at all
5 Interactions in the Environment	Excellent Lists and describes 5 interactions in the environment thoroughly	Good Lists and describes 5 interactions in the environment, but missing key details	Fair Lists and describes 4 interactions in the environment and missing thorough descriptions	Poor Lists and describes 3 interactions in the environment and does not provide significant detail about them	Ineffective Lists and describes 2 or less interactions in the environment and does not provide any detail about them
Cycle in the Environment	Excellent Describes a cycle in the environment with at least four facts about it.	Good Describes a cycle in the environment with three facts about it.	Fair Describes a cycle in the environment with two facts about it.	Poor Describes a cycle in the environment with one fact about it.	Ineffective Did not provide a description about a cycle in the environment.
Environmental Engineer	Excellent Describes an engineer's role in the environment with at least four facts about it.	Good Describes an engineer's role in the environment with three facts about it.	Fair Describes an engineer's role in the environment with two facts about it.	Poor Describes an engineer's role in the environment with one fact about it.	Ineffective Does not describe an engineer's role in the environment.
Quality of Writing	Excellent Less than 4 errors for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, run-on sentences, fragmented sentences.	Good 5 errors for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, run-on sentences, fragmented sentences.	Fair 6 errors for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, run-on sentences, fragmented sentences.	Poor 7 errors for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, run-on sentences, fragmented sentences.	Ineffective 8+ errors for punctuation, capitalization, spelling, run-on sentences, fragmented sentences.
Participation	Excellent Participated in the activity/lesson the entire time and gave 100% effort. Stayed on task and gave 100% attention to the teacher. Did not need to be redirected and behaved appropriately throughout the activity. Did not distract peers or interrupt the teacher. Followed all directions.	Good Participated in the activity. Had to be redirected one to two times for talking too loudly and/or during direct instruction, disrupting others.	Fair Student participated in the lesson and activity, but had to be redirected 3 or 4 times. Disrupted class and did not follow the directions.	Poor Participated in the lesson and activity, but required 5 or 6 redirections, interrupted the class multiple times, needed directions repeated several times because s/he was off task when they were given.	Ineffective Participated in the lesson and activity, but required 7+ redirections, class had to be stopped for him/her, missed the activity directions each time that they were given

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