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Science Project Rubric

0 2 4 6 8 10
MISSING Nonscientific explanation, Valid but very simplistic Valid but somewhat Valid and detailed Valid and deeply
and/or research does not scientific explanation, simplistic scientific; scientific explanation detailed explanation
lead to hypothesis at all and/or research somewhat research leads to for background knowledge for background knowledge
Background
leads to hypothesis hypothesis of scientific terms and of scientific terms and
Research OR concepts; research leads to concepts; research clearly
Not written in bulleted hypothesis; written in leads to hypothesis; written
phrases bulleted phrases in bulleted phrases, not
complete sentences
0 1 2 3 4 5
MISSING Hypothesis is Illogical, Hypothesis is logical; Hypothesis is logical; Hypothesis is logical; Hypothesis is logical;
incomplete, and/or explanation is missing explanation is simplistic explanation is simplistic explanation is clearly
Hypothesis incorrect with very little or poorly and includes some explained and includes
explained scientific scientific reasoning well-researched scientific
reasoning reasoning
0 1 2 3
Independent
MISSING Incorrectly identified or very Correctly identified, but Correctly identified, clearly
Variable unclear somewhat unclear explained
0 1 2 3
MISSING Incorrectly identified Correctly identified; Correctly identified;
Dependent measurement tool and/or measurement tool and unit
Variable unit of measurement for DV of measurement for DV
not included included; unit for DV is
metric
0 1 2 3
MISSING Identified control is the not Identified control is mostly Identified control is the
appropriate for baseline appropriate for baseline most appropriate for
comparison and/or comparison baseline comparison; clear
Control explanation not included OR explanation included
OR Correctly identifies no OR
Incorrectly identifies no possible control; Correctly identifies no
control possible explaination somewhat possible control; clearly
unclear and correctly explains why
0 1 2 3 4
MISSING Most necessary constants Some necessary constants Many necessary constants All possible constant
Constants missing identified, but missing identified, but missing identified
many some

0 2 4 6 8 10
MISSING Very few steps for Many steps of experiment Some steps for experiment All steps for experiment All steps of experiment
experiment are included are unclear or incomplete are unclear or incomplete, included and clearly included and clearly
Procedure repeated steps missing explained; repeated steps explained; repeated steps
are unclear or incomplete. for each test group and for
repeated trials clearly
specified and explained.
0 2 4 6 8 10
Data / MISSING Data table does not include Data table does not include Table includes all Table includes all Data table includes all of
Data correctly calculated correctly calculated necessary items, but 2-3 of necessary items, but ONLY the following: Title (IV vs.
Analysis averages AND fewer than averages OR fewer than 5 the following are true: title one of the following is true: DV), IV and DV correctly
5 trials included trials included is unclear or missing, IV title is unclear or missing, identified, control (if
 and DV not identified;
control and test groups not
identified
0 2 4 6
MISSING Data is misrepresented Incorrect graph type Incorrect graph type
AND chosen
Raw data represented on OR
graph Raw data represented on
graph
Graph OR
Missing more than 2 key
elements described
IV and DV not clearly
identified or control and
test groups not clearly
identified
8 10
Correct graph type chosen;
only averages represented;
data represented correctly;
Missing 1-2 key elements
described
present) included and
identified, each test group
included and identified;
MINIMUM of 5 trials;
correctly calculated
averages included; DV in
metric units
Correct graph type chosen;
only averages represented;
data represented correctly;
Graph includes all of the
following:
Title (should match data
table title), x- and y-axis
correctly labeled; units of
measurement(s) included
in axis labels, control and
test groups correctly
identified.

0 1 2 3 4
MISSING Results statement does not Results statement is Results statement Results statement
represent experimental somewhat unclear or does represents experimental represents experimental
data not fully represent data; not written with data; written with similar
Results experimental data similar wording as wording as hypothesis
hypothesis statement statement

0 2
MISSING Scientific reasoning for
results not included
Conclusion
0 1
No effort shown Project shows minimal
Effort /
effort, and/or includes
Neatness numerous proofreading
mistakes
4 6
Scientific reasoning for Hypothesis incorrectly
results included but is very restated, OR data support /
unclear or very incomplete fail to support hypothesis
incorrectly stated, OR
scientific reasoning for
results included but is
somewhat unclear or
somewhat incomplete
2 3
Project shows some effort, Project shows a great deal
and/or includes a number of effort, but includes very
of proofreading mistakes few proofreading mistakes
8 10
Hypothesis correctly
restated; data support / fail
to support hypothesis
correctly stated; average
data not included; scientific
reasoning for results fully
and clearly explained
4
Project shows a great deal
of effort and includes no
proofreading mistakes
Hypothesis correctly
restated; data support / fail
to support hypothesis
correctly stated; average
data included to prove
hypothesis correct or
incorrect; scientific
reasoning for results fully
and clearly explained

Total Score: ______________ /70 Letter Grade: ________

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