Communicate: Feedback 4.2.1

Communicate: Feedback 4.2.1

These rubrics are for a Meteorology Project that can be either a foldable or a digital LiveBinder.  Rubrics provide excellent opportunities for instructors to give good quality and authentic feedback.  The personal note at the end of the rubric may well be the most rewarding part to the young student.

For this project, three meteorology standards were used:

Science Standards:

S6E4. Students will understand how the distribution of land and oceans affects climate and weather.

a. Demonstrate that land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates and explain the resulting effects on weather patterns.

b. Relate unequal heating of land and water surfaces to form large global wind systems and weather events such as tornadoes and thunderstorms.

c. Relate how moisture evaporating from the oceans affects the weather patterns and weather events such as hurricanes.

The first link is to the excel document that automatically adds up the categories and gives and area for written feedback. (teacher use)
Teacher Scoring Rubric with auto-addition  (Teachers will really like the auto-addition feature!)

The second link is to the rubric with the itemized specifics for each category.  (student use/planning use)
Student use rubric with guidelines

Content Category	Score 1 - 10:
4 main types of air masses	10
Describe the four types of fronts.  Draw each type.	8
Give an example of a cyclone and anticyclone.	10
Explain the causes, effects and compare the two.
Draw a map of North America showing where the air masses originate and flow.	10
Storms:  Thunderstorm, Tornadoes, Hurricane and Winter Storms	7
(Feature your favorite one, but describe all 4)
Hurricane Tracking Chart	10
Floods and Flood Safety	8
Four Weather instruments or technologies used now and Two weather instruments used in the past (4)	8
Weather Map Drawing with at least 6 weather symbols and legend.	10
Neatness/Pages used to the Best Effect	10
Last page Bibliography/sources cited
Colorful/Creative Presentation/personal initiative
Spelling, editing, and language use
Instructor Comments:   Carabelle, you did an excellent job with organizing your project.  The tornado symbols to turn each page were creative as was your entire presentation.  You cited your sources appropriately and I saw good evidence of exemplary digital citizenship.  For the missed points, you named two fronts the same thing, described only 3 storms, only included 2 of 4 flood safety warnings, and  misnamed two weather instruments.  These are minor issues that you might have caught if you had time for a parent of friend to assess your project before the due date.   My favorite page is the Hurricane tracking chart.  You really did a great job with making it interesting and informative.  Those angry faces that you used to indicate the wind speed were hilarious! Thank you for sharing your work with me., All in all you scored a 91, which is a very respectable score.
Green Section is 10%
Total Grade out of 100	91