1. Students:
Agrarian vs. Hunter-Gatherer Website Evaluator
Date:
Rubric Economics
Criteria Unsatisfactory Basic Proficient Advanced
(Inadequate) (Minimal Criteria) (Demonstrates Some Mastery) (Demonstrates Exceptional Performance)
In addition to the Proficient category:
Required Content: • Required content missing or • Includes most of the required • Includes all the required content • Website presents content in an
Agriculture: incorrect content • Content is appropriate for the audience interactive, engaging way
• how, where, why • Content is inappropriate for the • Content is somewhat appropriate (6th graders) • Website could actually be used by a 6th
started? audience (6th graders) for the audience (6th graders) • Content includes/explains key grade teacher
Cities: • Vocabulary missing or incorrect • Content attempts to explain key vocabulary • Website teaches vocabulary creatively
• how and where started? • Visuals missing/inappropriate vocabulary, but may not do so • Appropriate visuals used • Visuals are perfectly chosen to enhance
• impact of cities on • Does not include any animations or effectively • Includes at least two appropriate the content of the website
environment, society, one or more animations • Visuals used, but may not be animations
technology inappropriate appropriate • Includes one practice quiz with answers
Agrarian Civilizations: • Does not include any practice • Includes one practice quiz, but • Includes one appropriate game
• similiarities and quizzes or quiz inappropriate answers may be missing
differences • Does not include any game or game • Includes one animation
• advantages and inappropriate • Includes game
disadvantages
Foraging Societies:
• advantages and
disadvantages
• examples from
Walkabout
Big question: Was life in
agrarian societies better
than life in hunter-
gatherer societies? 1 • 3 4
• Numerous spelling and/or • Some spelling or grammatical • Very few spelling or grammatical • Website text is interesting for 6th
grammatical errors errors but does not impede errors graders to read
• Diction is inappropriate for comprehension • Diction is appropriate for the • Website text is genuinely educational
the website's purpose and • Diction is mostly appropriate website's purpose and audience for 6th graders
audience for the website's purpose and • Very few proofreading mistakes
• Numerous proofreading audience • Almost all paragraphs are well-
Written
mistakes • Some proofreading mistakes organized, with topic sentences
Communication
• Paragraphs missing/not well- but does not impede
organized comprehension
• Most paragraphs are well-
organized with topic sentences
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• Volume is insufficient • Voices are at times expressive • Voices are at good volume • Voices are enjoyable to hear, and
• Delivery is monotone and show appropriate emotion, • Voices are expressive and show use expression and emphasis
• Presenters read from notes or but not consistently appropriate emotion • Project is truly dramatic with action,
text • Lines are somewhat • Lines are memorized with little pauses and gestures.
• There is no obvious attention memorized but notes or text were reference to notes or text • Presentation is completely
Oral to dressing for the presentation needed for reference • Students are dressed appropriately memorized; no use of notes
Communication • Presentation is less than 3 • Students are dressed, but not to their roles • Delivery of content enhances
minutes in length necessarily appropriately to their • Presentation is 3-5 minutes in audience understanding
roles length • Presentation is engaging to the
• Presentation is at least 3 audience
minutes in length
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2. • Navigation is unclear, • Navigation is somewhat clear, • Navigation is clear, consistent, and • Website is enjoyable to navigate
inconsistent, and hard to use consistent, and easy to use easy to use • Layout scheme is visually appealing
• Layout scheme is inconsistent • Layout scheme is mostly • Layout scheme is consistent • Text, fonts, image placements are
• Text, fonts, image placements consistent • Text, fonts, image placements are visually appealing
are inconsistent • Text, fonts, image placements consistent • All images, text, and color are
• All images, text, and color are are usually consistent • All images, text, and color are clear visually appealing
Technology not clear and readable • Most images, text, and color and readable
• Many links don't work are clear and readable • All links work
• Images, animations, quizzes • Most links work • All images and animations have
missing captions/ directions • Most images and animations captions; all quizzes have directions
have captions; most quizzes have
directions
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• Group members were • Group members usually were • Group members were almost • Group members were always on
frequently off task, had to be told on task, stayed in their groups, always on task, stayed in their groups, task, stayed in their groups, and
to stay in their groups, and/or did and brought laptops and brought laptops brought laptops
Collaboration not bring laptops most of the time • All group members • All group members equally • Products or performances include
• Group members did not all participated in, created and spoke participated in, created and spoke evidence of spontaneous fluency,
contribute to the project and during the presentation, but the during the presentation flexibility, originality, or elaboration.
speak during presentation contributions were not equal
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