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Scoring Rubric for: Science: Ecology
Investigate the Plight of an Endangered Forest Animal

Benchmarks:
1. Describe how an organism interacts in an ecosystem
2. Use the research process to investigate a topic
3. Use the writing process to produce a written product for a specific audience

Scientific Content	Research Process	Writing Process
Report describes in detail how organism interacts with ecosystem Meets all requirements of project	Detailed and interesting information included in the report indicates thorough research using multiple sources.	Lively language, carefully edited, polished final draft	4
Report describes how organism interacts in an ecosystem. Includes most of required information.	Information included in the report indicates good investigation of the topic using the research process.	Good word choice, complete sentences, few editing errors	3
Report needs more information to describe how an organism interacts in an ecosystem. Missing some key requirements.	Research process needs to be more thorough to include more than just basic information.	More attention to word choice, sentence and editing.	2
Please see your teacher for help in meeting the benchmarks assessed by the project.	Please see your teacher for help in meeting the benchmarks assessed by the project.	Please see your teacher for help in meeting the benchmarks assessed by the project.	1