CATEGORY 4 3
Research  Information presented is
complete and correct.
Student identifies all
/15 research required.
Portrait  Portrait is neatly done,
demonstrates thought and
analysis of the background.
 It contains at least five
pieces of required
/10 information.
Creativity  Students demonstrate
exceptional creativity and
“outside of the box”
thinking in their
/5 personification of the
colony.
Presentation skills  No more than 3 distracting
words
Student maintains eye
/5 
contact consistently
 Is well prepared
Written Work  Written work presents all
required research as well as
the correlation between the
/10 five portrayed facts and the
research.
 Work demonstrates careful
analysis rather than
compilation of the work of
others.
Use of class time  Both students are on task
during all provided class
time.
/5
 Information presented is
correct. Student identifies
all research required, but
could elaborate more on
one required piece.
 Portrait is neatly done and
demonstrates thought. May
lack sufficient analysis of
background information.
 It contains at least five
pieces of required
information.
 Students demonstrate
acceptable creativity and
“outside of the box”
thinking in their
personification of the
colony.
 No more than 4 distracting
words
Student maintains eye

contact consistently
 Is well prepared
 Written work presents all
required research as well as
the correlation between the
five portrayed facts and the
research.
 Analysis could be more
developed.
 Both students are on task
for the majority of provided
class time, but may stray
off task once or twice.
2 1
 Information presents all  Information is missing
required information, more than one required
but could elaborate piece and/or presents more
more on one required than one piece of incorrect
piece AND presents no information.
more than one piece of
incorrect information.
 Portrait is neatly done  Portrait is sloppily or
and demonstrates hastily done and/or does
thought. It does not not demonstrate thought or
demonstrate analysis of analysis.
the information.  Contains less than three
•
OR
Contains less than four
pieces of required
information.
pieces of required
information.
 Students demonstrate  Students do not
creativity, but could demonstrate creativity.
have developed it more
or spent more time on
the creative aspects of
their project.
 Five or more distracting  Significant distracting
words words.
Inconsistent eye contact.
 Student maintains eye
contact consistently

 Student is not confident
 Student is not confident with material
with material he/she is
presenting.
 Written work presents  Written work presents most
all required research as required research.
well as the correlation  Demonstrates the
between the five
portrayed facts, but
correlation between four or
less portrayed facts.
does not attempt  Does not attempt analysis
analysis. of the information.
OR
 Written work shows the
relationship between
less than five portrayed
facts.
 One or both students  Student/s are off task more
is/are significantly off often than not during
task.
provided class time.