Team work:
5 - Everyone participated, was respectful, worked hard, stayed on task, and completed their individual part of the project.
3 - Most people contributed ideas, were respectful most of the time, stayed on task most of the time, most of the parts are completed.
1 - Little cooperation and involvement by team members, had difficulty respecting everyone's opinions, rarely on task, many parts are incomplete.
Descriptions:
5 - Complete sentences, paragraph form, specific identification of 5 sharks and their characteristics, identifies which website they found the information, well organized, shows evidence of thought.
3 - Some sentence fragments, needs work on forming paragraphs, missing information on some sharks, some information has citations, has some organization.
1 - No complete sentences, no clear paragraphs, missing a lot of information, no citations, not organized or thought out.
Habitat:
5 - Complete sentences, paragraph form, specific identification of the habitat of 5 sharks, identifies which website they found the information, well organized, shows evidence of thought.
3 - Some sentence fragments, needs work on forming paragraphs, missing information on some sharks, some information has citations, has some organization.
1 - No complete sentences, no clear paragraphs, missing a lot of information, no citations, not organized or thought out.
Diorama:
5 - Displays facts about 1 shark's habitat accurately, relatively to scale, includes a paper with citations about where displayed item information was found, has color, uses multiple materials.
3 - Displays facts about 1 shark's habitat with few generalizations, shows some attempt to make it to scale, includes a citation paper but missing some information, limited color and materials were used.
1 - Displays general facts about sharks, not specific to any particular shark's habitat, no attempt to make it to scale, missing citation paper, limited use of materials.
Story:
5 - Original story about a specific shark you researched, describes shark behavior and habitat or other information learned from the webquest (three specific details), attention paid to the elements of good writing, citation of where you found the information you used in the story.
3 - Original story about a specific shark you researched, missing some detailed information from the webquest, little attention paid to the elements of good writing, citation is missing elements.
1 - Story adapted from another story, not specific to any shark researched, missing detailed information from webquest, no evidence of understanding of writing elements, missing citation page.
