Scoring Rubric

The Great American Microscopic Zoo

Overview: Students create models of plant and animal cells, protists and fungi, and bacteria and viruses.

Assessed Items	Points	What to Look For
Does the model accurately represent the selected organism?	3	Organism's shape, constituent parts and structure, and proportions are accurate.
	2	Organism's shape is represented, but structures and proportions are not accurate.
	1	Basic shape is loosely represented; little attention paid to structure and proportion.
Visual presentation	3	Indicates organism's identity and classification, its function in the environment, and its potential effect on other organisms.
	2	Indicates organism's identity and classifications, but function and relationship to other organisms is lacking.
	1	Indicates organism's identity, but classification, function, and relationship to other organisms is lacking.
Oral presentation	3	Good preparedness but some questions are not answered clearly.
	2	Fair preparedness but some questions are not answered clearly.
	1	Poor preparedness, and is unable to answer any questions.