Oct 14 2007
HW_3_Rubric – Study of World Cultures
Rubric – for technology project Subject: Social Studies
Grade: 5th
Project Groups: the class will be divided into groups of FOUR students.
By the end of this project the students will: have a good understanding about the Indian culture, geography of
India, climatic conditions, natural boundaries, customs and the life style.
During the project the students will: read books about
India, do online research about the facts, collect relevant pictures, interview an Indian family if they know someone and make a power point presentation to share with their classmates.
Materials: Digital cameras will be provided to each group to take pictures of Indian artifacts around the school and outside the school.
Objective: Exploring a variety of cultures found in the
United States to have better understanding to appreciate our multicultural and diverse communities. Study of world cultures will enable our students to identify the similarities and differences among the various cultures.
Guide Lines for the project:
The power point presentation should have at least 8-16 slides
Inspiration will be used to mind map the initial planning of the project
Relevancy
visual aids
accurate information
@ least one hyperlink for further research
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Thanks for posting your rubric….some comments:
-are all criteria of equal value?
-why are students getting points for name, date & subject–shouldn’t that just be expected? No name, no grade….
-Time management–does it really matter how they used their time as long as the final project is excellent?
-Number of slides- I would suggest that a criteria that says something like “slides appropriate to content” or slides logically divided by content” would be better than number of slides
-Hyperlinks? again, why evaluate on number of hyperlinks–why not “hyperlinks where appropriate” or, even better yet, outside resources used to support primary content.
-How do you define “creative” in the presentation category
-Information: What if they did a presentation with only pictures? Consider having something about supporting information with notes rather than text on the slides.
(Please know that it is your choice as to whether or not to reveal these comments to the rest of the group)
You may want to take another look at your rubric for this assignment. A rubric is usually organized so that the teacher assigns a certain number of points that can be earned in each category related to the assignment. And most of categories relate to the content of the presentation.
Take a look at this simple example: http://www.schools.lth5.k12.il.us/aviston/KBLesson8.html. There are many others on the web that you could learn from.
Interesting project – I am wondering about grading the projects with your rubric; with so many categories and scores, will it be hard to grade the project? I have to admit that I haven’t had a lot of experience with rubrics, but that was my thought in looking it over.
Hello, Thanks for all your comments. I was not happy about the rubric myself. So I redid it all over again and posted another one. Please check this and give your input.
I decided to share the comments with our group. This might help everyone understand better.
Tim that link was very useful…
Thanks again…