Rubric for Applied Design, Skills & Technologies

Emerging Developing Proficient Extending

Uses only teacher identified needs and
Ideating opportunities for design
Little attempt is made to generated ideas
Adds unrelated ideas to other's ideas
Chooses an unrelated idea to pursue
Making Chooses unrelated tools and materials
With support, through exploration, identifies Through exploration, identifies needs and
needs and opportunities for design
Generates ideas from personal
experiences
Inconsistently adds to other's ideas
With support, chooses an idea to pursue
Choose most tools and materials
Through exploration, identifies specific needs
opportunities for designing and opportunities for desinging
Generates ideas from personal experiences Generates appropriate and applicable ideas
and interests from personal experience and interests
Provides critical and constructive feedback to
Adds to other's ideas other's ideas
Chooses a specific and appropriate idea to
Chooses an idea to pursue pursue
Choose appropriate tools and materials to use;
Choose tools and materials shows deliberate considerations

Makes a product through modelling of Makes a product using known procedures, or, Makes a product using known and unknown
Uses illogical procedure to make a product others through modelling of others procedures

Shows reflective thinking and deliberately uses

With support, uses trial and error to make Uses trial and error to make changes, solve standardized trial and error strategies to make
Only makes changes to teacher or peer changes, solve problems, or incorporate problems, or incorporate new ideas from self or changes, solve problems, or incorporate new
identified areas new ideas from self or others others ideas from self or others

Chooses an ineffective strategy to share With support, decides on how and with Decides on how and with whom to share their Thoughtfully decides on an effective method to
Sharing their product whom to share their product product share their product
Demonstrate their product, tells a reflective,
Clearly demonstrate their product, tells the coherent and detailed story of designing and
Requires direct support to demonstrate their story of designing and making of their product, making of their product. Student also provides
product, provides an incomplete description With support, demonstrates their product, and explains how their product contributes to specific ways in which their product
of the story about designing and making of tell a simple story of designing and making indviduals, family memebers, the local contributes to indviduals, family members, the
their product of their product community, and/or the envrionment local community, and/or the envrionment
With explicit prompts, uses personal
Uses biased personal preferences to preferences to evaluate the success of their Uses personal preferences to evaluate the Uses both objective and personal preferences
evaluate the success of their design solution design solution success of their design solution to evaluate the success of their design solution

Little attempt is made to reflect on their Reflects only on their ability to work Objectively and critically reflects on their ability
ability to work effectively as indivudals or effectively as indivudals or collaboratively in Reflects on their ability to work effectively both to work effectively both as indivudals and
collaboratively in a group a group as indivudals and collaboratively in a group collaboratively in a group

Uses materials, tools, and technologies in a Uses materials, tools, and technologies in a Effectively uses materials, tools, and
Does not employ safe measures when using safe manner in physical, or in digital safe manner in both physical and digital technologies in a safe manner in both physical
Applied Skills materials, tools, and technologies environment environment and digital environments

Mindfully develop their skills and add new

Little attempt is made to develop their skills
or add new strategies
Little attempt is made to explore the use of
Applied Technologies simple, available tools and technolgoies
Develop their skills through play and
collaborative work
Explores the use of simple, available tools
and technologies
Develop their skills and add new ones through
play and collaborative work
Explores the use of simple, available tools and
technolgoies to extend their capabilties
ones through play, reflective and collaborative
work
Effortfully and mindfully explores the use of
simple, available tools and technologies to
extend their capabilties as an individual and as
a team member