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Scientific Concepts

Report illustrates an accurate and thorough understanding of scientific concepts underlying the lab.

Report illustrates an accurate understanding of most scientific concepts underlying the lab.

Report illustrates a limited understanding of scientific concepts underlying the lab.

Report illustrates inaccurate understanding of scientific concepts underlying the lab.

Experimental Design

Experimental design is a well-constructed test of the stated hypothesis.

Experimental design is adequate to test the hypothesis, but leaves some unanswered questions.

Experimental design is relevant to the hypothesis, but is not a complete test.

Experimental design is not relevant to the hypothesis.

Inquiry Skills

Student was able to independently design and conduct an experiment that contained all components of the experimental design and accurately reflected the scientific content being studied.

Student was able to design and conduct an experiment that contained all components of the experimental design and accurately reflected the scientific content being studied with minimal prompts.

Student was able to design and conduct an experiment that contained all components of the experimental design and accurately reflected the scientific content being studied with multiple prompts.

Student needed step by step prompting to design and conduct an experiment that contained all the components of the experimental design and accurately reflected the scientific content being studied.

Components of the report

All required elements are present and additional elements that add to the report (e.g., thoughtful comments, graphics) have been added.

All required elements are present.

One required element is missing, but additional elements that add to the report (e.g., thoughtful comments, graphics) have been added.

Several required elements are missing.

Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar

One or fewer errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar in the report.

Two or three errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar in the report.

Four errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar in the report.

More than 4 errors in spelling, punctuation and grammar in the report.

Use of Vocabulary

Frequently scientific vocabulary was used and it was used correctly.

Scientific vocabulary was used but on a few occurrences the words were used inaccurately.

Minimal scientific vocabulary was used and often the words were inaccurately used.

No scientific vocabulary was used.