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Density Bottle

Students build a density bottle and describe the density of the objects and liquids they decided to use. Due March 5, 2013

Rubric Code: V978C2

By wwoodruff

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Subject: Science

Type: Project

Grade Levels: 6-8

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	Excelent 4 pts	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Number oflayers	Excelent Student has more than 5 or more separate liquid layers	Good Student has 4 separate liquid layers	Fair Has 3 separate liquid layers	Poor Less than 3 layers
Number of solid objects	Excelent Student has floated more than one object at each layer of the bottle	Good Student has floated at least one object at each level	Fair Student did not float an object on one level of the bottle	Poor student did not float a solid object on more than one level of the bottle.
detailed and clear diagram	Excelent The diagram is neatly completed and labeled with the correct labels	Good The diagram is neatly done and labeled but not in color	Fair the diagram is not neatly completed	Poor the diagram lacks labels
summary	Excelent The summary is neatly written and addresses each item in the bottle and compares each one to another item that was included.	Good The summary is neatly written and addresses each item in the bottle, and compares several of the objects to each other	Fair The summary is neatly written and addresses each item in the bottle.	Poor summary is not neatly written or student does not demonstrate understanding of the scientific concepts.
reasoning	Excelent Student includes clear understanding of the reasoning behind scientific concepts of density and bouyancy	Good student includes some understanding of the scientific concepts behind bouyancy	Fair Student is starting to make a connection to buoyancy and density	Poor student does not make any connection between buoyancy and density.
completion	Excelent complete and on time	Good complete but one day late	Fair complete but more than one day late	Poor more than one day late AND incomplete