SCIENCE INDICATORS

2016-2017
FIFTH GRADE

1. Identify needed information for completing a purpose to

develop effective search strategies
Excelente: Collects information from a variety of relevant sources demonstrating
integration and confirmation of the validity of the obtained information.
Sobresaliente: Considers quality of the source of information, showing a c areful choice of
search terms, to obtain accurate information specifically adressed for his age.
Bueno: Shows efficiency to select proper vocabulary and to combine search terms in
order to find required information to accomplish a task.
Insuficiente: Ignores appropriate search terms and methods and fails to effectively find
reliable information.
Deficiente: Is unable to differentiate relevant and reliable sources from the ones that
are not.

2. Use organizing tools to display concrete information

Excelente: Presents an organizer that shows synthesized, organized and complete
information with meaningful relationships among subtopics.
Sobresaliente: Categorizes useful information organizing detailed aspects, to display
content that is relevant, understandable, clear and concise.
Bueno: Organizes most information about a topic, showing relevant organization and
summarization of it.
Insuficiente: Organizing tools present understandable concepts and contents, missing
required elements, relationships and/or accurate relationships.
Deficiente: Graphic organizers show unclear, incomplete or inaccurate information.

3. Determine variables and factors that affect systems and

relations to explain biological processes
Excelente: Compares elements, finding appropriate comparative items suggesting deep
understanding of the selected information, with relevant, accurate and detailed
reasoning.
Sobresaliente: Characterizes information and finds items of comparison to categorize it
accordingly
Bueno: Evidences identification of characteristics that define biological processes and
relations to support answers.
Insuficiente: Indicates failures to recognize relevant details, showing incomplete
interpretation of data and facts.
Deficiente: Shows unorganized information and little interpretation of it.

4. Explain biological cycles to justify effects of changes in

factors that affects them
Excelente: Demonstrates constructed knowledge proposing hypothesis based on facts
and data.
Sobresaliente: Uses relevant and accurate facts to evaluate causes of change.
Bueno: Shows examination of the evidence with accuracy and relevance, recognizing
the facts that justify changes in biological factors.
Insuficientedetermination of factors that affect biological cycles is superficial and
doesnt have enough support on real evidence.
Deficiente: Is unable to recognize factors that determine biological cycles.

5. Use different resources to propose analogies about the

studied topics.
Excelente: Analyzes studied information to understand and interpret situations that
lead to the creation original analogies
Sobresaliente: Structure of analogies clearly illustrate the target or situation
demonstrating deep understanding of the topic.
Bueno: Identifies similarities in relationships or functions to propose analogies that
show understanding of the scientific concepts.
Insuficiente: Understands the mechanics to create analogies but is unable to produce
meaningful results.
Deficiente: Comparison of situations that lead to the proposal of analogies is superficial
and inaccurate.

6. Determine the characteristics of biological interactions, to

elaborate evaluative questions on the topic
Excelente: Presents engaging questions that include diagrams or graphs to motivate his
partners to analyze studied topics and learn from them.
Sobresaliente: Presents multiple choice questions and answers that require deep
analysis of the topic.
Bueno: Presents challenging questions and answers that evidence understanding of the
topic.
Insuficiente: Presents a game in which questions and answers are not accurate or
complete.
Deficiente: There is no coherence between the contents and instructions presented in
class and the ones presented in the game.
7.

Set up goals and steps to plan and monitor his performance

on a specific task.
Excelente: Recognizes past mistakes to propose preventive measures that may result in
an improvement of his learning and performance.
Sobresaliente: Establishes an appropriate check list for revision of requested objectives
Bueno: Considers given instructions and proposed objectives to understand the purpose
of class activities
Insuficiente: Does not understand the purpose of proposed activities to be followed to
accomplish a goal
Deficiente: Is unable to recognize the need of organization and planning that may lead
to a better performance.

8.

Follow criteria based on own or partners revision to

evaluate his performance on a specific task.
Excelente: Plans specific steps to avoid interferences to his process, proposing
preventive measures in order to achieve future goals.
Sobresaliente: Looks over his assignment outcome or his partners work to recognize
improvement areas.
Bueno: Revises proposed checklist to recognize mistakes that could have been
prevented.
Insuficiente: Revision on assignment outcomes doesnt shows recognition of past
mistakes.
Deficiente: Is unable to recognize the importance of revision prior submission.