Rubric Collaborative Work Skills: Hurricane Proof Homes
CATEGORY
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Focus on task Consistently stays
focused on the task.
Very self-directed.
Quality of
Work
Provides work of the
highest quality.
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Focuses on the task
and what needs to
be done most of the
time. Other group
members can count
on this person.
Focuses on the task
and what needs to
be done. Others
must sometimes
remind to keep this
person on-task.
Rarely focuses on
the task and what
needs to be done.
Lets others do the
work.
Provides high quality Provides work that
work.
occasionally needs
to be checked &
redone by members.
Working with Almost always listens,
shares, & supports
Others
Usually listens,
shares, & supports
efforts of others. Tries to efforts of others.
keep team working well Does not disrupt the
together.
team.
Contributions Routinely provides
useful ideas
participating in
discussions. A definite
leader - contributes a lot
of effort.
Usually provides
useful ideas
participating in
discussions. A leader
- contributes a lot of
effort, who tries hard!
Provides work that
usually needs to be
checked & redone
by members.
Often listens, shares,
& supports efforts of
others, sometimes
not a good team
member.
Rarely listens,
shares, & supports
efforts of others.
Often is not a good
team player.
Sometimes provides
useful ideas in
discussions. A
satisfactory group
member who does
what is required.
Rarely provides
useful ideas in
participating in
discussion. May
refuse to
participate.
Usually provides
Researching / Provides useful ideas
Fact Finding when participating in the useful ideas when
Sometimes provides
useful ideas when
participating in group participating in group
discussion.
discussion with
Researches several minimal research.
sources.
Rarely provides
useful ideas and
with no evidence.
May refuse to
participate.
Actively looks for and
Problemsuggests solutions to
solving
problems.
& Reasoning
Refines solutions
Does not suggest or
suggested by others. refine solutions, but
is willing to try out
solutions suggested
by others.
Does not try to
solve problems or
help others solve
problems. Lets
others do the work.
group discussion.
Researches many
sources.
Presentation Almost always listens to, Usually listens to,
Weather
impacting
human
population
shares with, and
supports the efforts of
others in the team. Tries
to keep people working
well together.
shares with, and
supports the efforts
of others in the
group. Does not
cause disruptions in
the team.
Often listens to,
shares with, and
supports the efforts
of others in the group
but sometimes is not
a good team
member.
Rarely listens to,
shares with, and
supports the efforts
of others in the
group. Often is not
a good team
member.
Students recognize how
air temperature,
barometric pressure,
humidity, wind speed &
direction, precipitation
determine the weather
in a particular place and
time.
Students recognize
that air temperature,
humidity, wind speed
& direction,
precipitation changes
the weather.
Students see that
temperature,
humidity, wind
speed, &precipitation
can make weather
worse.
Does not relate air
temperature, wind
speed & direction
to sever weather
conditions.
Causes of
weather
Explains how energy
from the sun influences
global patterns of
atmospheric movement,
temperature differences
between air, water, and
land.
Are able to design a
Hurricane
Preparedness family preparedness
See that energy from
the sun influences
atmospheric
movement &
temperature
differences between
air, water, and land.
Does not state that
energy from the sun
influences global
patterns of
temperature
differences between
air, water, and land.
Does not relate
energy from sun to
atmospheric
movements and
temperature
differences
between air, water,
and land.
Suggest some steps
in preparing for
severe weather
disasters.
Does not show
effective steps in
preparing for
severe weather
disasters.
Recognize there is a Knows the definition
difference between
of weather and
weather and climate. climate.
Does not know
differences
between weather
or climate.
Are able to design a
family preparedness
plan for natural disasters plan for severe
and identify the reasons weather & natural
for having such a plan. disasters.
Weather vs.
Climate
Can differentiate
between weather and
climate.