Name _______________________ Date ____________________________ Scientific Method 4 3 2 1 Question Student clearly Student’s Student’s Student does not states questions question is stated question is stated state a question to be in a manner that in a manner that to be investigated. is somewhat is mostly unclear. investigated. unclear. Hypothesis Student writes a Student writes a Student writes a Student does not hypothesis that is hypothesis that hypothesis that write hypothesis. well-thought out vaguely ties into does not tie into and ties to the the experiment. the experiment. experiment. Procedure Procedure and Procedure and Procedure is too Procedure is data are complete data are complete general and incomplete, and accurate. and mostly incomplete. It is inaccurate, or The experiment accurate. The difficult to follow missing. It would could be repeated experiment could the sequencing in be impossible to by another be repeated with this experiment. repeat this researcher. support. experiment. Graph/Diagram Diagram/graphs Diagrams/graphs Diagrams/graphs Diagrams/graphs significantly enhance the don’t enhance the don’t enhance enhance the paper somewhat paper but do have and have to paper and have but have limited limited relevance relevance to the relevance to the relevance to the to the topic. topic. topic. topic. Data Collection Student Student usually Student Student rarely Consistently makes occasionally makes makes observations and makes observations and observations and collects data in an observations and collects data in an collected data in appropriate collects data in an appropriate an appropriate manner (chart, appropriate manner (chart, manner (chart, graph, etc.) manner (chart, graphs, etc.) graph, etc) graphs, etc.) Analysis Results are Results are Results are Inaccurate results complete and complete and somewhat or No results accurate with accurate with complete or some specific details mention of are inaccurate or that tie the something make mention of question and specific from the anything in the hypothesis to the experiment. experiment. overall results Conclusion Student writes a Student writes a Student writes a Student does not conclusion that conclusion that conclusion that write a contains the contains most of contains few of conclusion. required the required the required elements. elements. elements. Total Score ___________ ____________ ____________ Comments:
Name _______________________ Date ____________________________ Scientific Method 4 3 2 1 Question Student clearly states questions to be investigated. Student’s question is stated in a manner that is somewhat unclear. Student’s question is stated in a manner that is mostly unclear. Student does not state a question to be investigated. Hypothesis Student writes a hypothesis that is well-thought out and ties to the experiment. Student writes a hypothesis that vaguely ties into the experiment. Student writes a hypothesis that does not tie into the experiment. Student does not write hypothesis. Procedure Procedure and data are complete and accurate. The experiment could be repeated by another researcher. Procedure and data are complete and mostly accurate. The experiment could be repeated with support. Procedure is too general and incomplete. It is difficult to follow the sequencing in this experiment. Procedure is incomplete, inaccurate, or missing. It would be impossible to repeat this experiment. Graph/Diagram Diagram/graphs significantly enhance the paper and have relevance to the topic. Diagrams/graphs enhance the paper somewhat but have limited relevance to the topic. Diagrams/graphs don’t enhance the paper but do have limited relevance to the topic. Diagrams/graphs don’t enhance and have to relevance to the topic. Data Collection Student Consistently makes observations and collected data in an appropriate manner (chart, graph, etc) Student usually makes observations and collects data in an appropriate manner (chart, graph, etc.) Student occasionally makes observations and collects data in an appropriate manner (chart, graphs, etc.) Student rarely makes observations and collects data in an appropriate manner (chart, graphs, etc.) Analysis Results are complete and accurate with specific details that tie the question and hypothesis to the overall results Results are complete and accurate with mention of something specific from the experiment. Results are somewhat complete or some are inaccurate or make mention of anything in the experiment. Inaccurate results or No results Conclusion Student writes a conclusion that contains the required elements. Student writes a conclusion that contains most of the required elements. Student writes a conclusion that contains few of the required elements. Student does not write a conclusion. Total Score ___________ ____________ ____________ Comments:
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