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Animal Research Project

Students will be selecting an animal and research the unique characteristics about this animal.

Rubric Code: VX8778B

By bishopam

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Subject: Science

Type: Assessment

Grade Levels: 9-12

Animal Informational Sheets
	Good 3 pts	Fair 2 pts	Poor 1 pts
Bodies Reproduction Specialized parts How their body works (digestive, circulatory, nervous system)	Good Describes all three topics required	Fair Describes 2 out of three required topics	Poor Describes 1 out of three required topics
Community Interactions Predator prey relationships, competition, Habitat and Niche and adaptions for survival	Good Describes all five topics required	Fair Describes 3 out of three required topics	Poor Describes 1 out of three required topics
Human Interaction How are non-living factors (climate, waves, etc) and humans directly or indirectly impacting them.	Good Thoroughly explained, with details and examples how non living factors and humans are influencing how this organism lives.	Fair Explained how non living factors and humans are influencing how this organism lives.	Poor Mentions how non living factors and humans are influencing how this organism lives but doesn't go into details.
Interesting facts about animal Examples:endangered, positive and negative impacts on society and environment, destroy crops, keep people company, allergies, how they are harvested, what they taste like, etc	Good Explained 2-3 additional interesting details about their animal.	Fair Listed or just gave 1 additional interesting facts about their animal.	Poor did not provide any interesting facts about their animal.
Pictures	Good 2-3 different pictures of the organism are shown and are used to enhance the informational brochure and its content	Fair 1 picture is shown of the organism but isn't integrated seamlessly into the page.	Poor No picture of animal, or pictures do not depict information presented on the page.
Citing Sources	Good All sources are cited at the end of the brochure.	Fair Some sources are cited at the end of the brochure	Poor None of the sources are cited anywhere.
Timeliness	Good On time	Fair 1 day late	Poor More than a day late