Scoring Rubric

Museum Display

Overview: Students research various systems of plants, vertebrates, and invertebrates. They compile their research to create a museum.

Assessed Items	Points	What to Look For
Research, report and diagram of the systems of the plant, invertebrate, and vertebrate chosen	3	Student uses several appropriate sources, interprets information correctly, and draws diagrams accurately.
	2	Student uses some inappropriate sources, misinterprets some information, and draws some diagrams inaccurately.
	1	Student uses only one source, misinterprets information, and draws diagrams inaccurately.
Model building of body systems	3	Student accurately plans and constructs three-dimensional models or other comparable forms of display of the systems of the three selected organisms.
	2	Student introduces some errors into the models or displays of the systems of the three selected organisms.
	1	Student plans but does not complete the models or displays of the systems of the three selected organisms.
Research on life cycles	3	Student accurately describes the life cycles and diets of the three selected organisms.
	2	Student sometimes inaccurately describes the life cycles and diets of the three selected organisms.
	1	Student inaccurately describes the life cycles and diets of the three selected organisms.