Rubric

=Rubric for MyHero.com Project=

Criteria || 4 || 3 || 2 || 1 || Part 1: Student selects a leader suitable for myhero.com to study and located reliable information about that leader. || Student selects an appropriate topic and locates three sources including one book, one reliable internet site, and a database source. Student lists searhable keywords. || Student selects an appropriate topic and locates two sources of information. || Student selects an inappropriate topic and one or two sources. || Student does not select a topic. || Part 2: Student records bibliographic information || Student cites three sources correctly. || Student cites two sources correctly. || Student cites one source correctly. || Student does not cite information. || Part 3: Student takes notes on his topic || Student records at least … details or examples for each of his three sources. Students write his own reflections, questions, or visuals. || Student records at least … details from three sources. || Student writes … details or examples from two sources. || Student writes some notes. || Part 4: Student creates a good research question, and transforms the question into his thesis || Level 4: Why were Roberta Bondar’s experiments on the space shuttle Discovery important to her, to women, to Canada, and to science? || Level 3: How did Roberta Bondar get to fly on space shuttle Discovery as a payload specialist on the first International Microgravity Laboratory Mission? || Level 2: Wht space missions did Roberta Bondar go on? || Level 1: When was Roberta Bondar born? || Part 5: Student tells part of the story using a portrait || Student finishes portrait to art class specifications including quotation by his hero, photographs it, and saves the digital image for posting. || Student draws something and save digital version for posting. || Student draws something and photographs it. || Student draws something about his hero. || Part 6: Student tells part o the story using a spreadsheet, graph, or chart. || Level 4: Students shows an important using numbers – for example, war injuries and survival in the time of Florence Nightengale and in Iraq. || Level 3: Student takes facts and figures to create spreadsheet, for example acres of land owned by peasants before Pancho Villa and after Pancho Villa || Level 2: Student shows how hero compares to other figures at his time in dollars earned, people impacted, etc. || Level 1: Student makes timeline of life of hero. ||