Rubric for Technology-Based Art Lesson Evaluation
Locating and Evaluating a Web-Based Arts-Related K-5 Lesson Plan on the Web
CRITERIA NOT YET
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1. Web-Based Lesson Either provides unclear Internet site
Meets Selection documentation or minimally
Requirements describes how lesson meets all
selection requirements.
2. The Assignment Many of the required descriptive
Contains Required elements are missing.
Descriptive Elements
3. The Lesson Plan There is little analysis of the key
Analysis lesson elements that were found in
the selection
4. The Assessment Plan There is minimal description or
Analysis discussion of an assessment plan in
the selected lesson.
5. Mechanics of Writing Many mechanical errors reflect
and Technology Task difficulty in writing; Misspelled
Limits words and disjointed phrasing; Too
brief or too wordy.
Total Each Column Here →
Grading Scale: 0-3 = F;
ACCEPTABLE
Documents Internet site where lesson
is found--its title, unit, and duration
but inadequately describes how it
meets all selection requirements.
Relevant art standards are included
with description of how they relate to
CA standards. Some of the major
elements are described.
Many of the lesson’s elements are
analyzed; Some are missing or
inadequately described; “extras”
provided in lesson are noted.
Presents a basic analysis of the
lesson’s assessment and/or evaluation
plan.
Average writing has some mechanical
errors; Well-punctuated and clear
phrasing;
Meets the 500-750 word limit
4-6=D; 7-9 = C; 10-12= B;
EXCELLENT
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Documents Internet site where lesson
is found--its title, unit, and duration
and how it meets all selection
requirements.
Relevant art standards are included
and description of how they relate to
CA standards is included. All of the
major elements are described.
Comprehensive evaluation of the
description of materials; the presence
of connections made to other
content; the clarity or ease-of-use of
teacher directions and activity plans
and usefulness of the student
assessment tools/processes align with
the activity; “extras” provided in
lesson are noted.
Evaluates the plan for student
assessment tools/processes and how
they align with the activity; details of
any plan to evaluate the effectiveness
of the lesson.
Highly readable document with no
mechanical errors and clear phrasing;
500-750 word limit
13-15 = A
Liberal Studies 396GW Gateway Spring 2005

TECHNOLOGY/WRITING ASSIGNMENT #1:

E-MAIL WITH ARTS LINK AND LESSON-PLAN EVALUATION

The first of your subject matter assignments asks you to find and evaluate an arts-related lesson plan on the web. This will fulfill
several technology requirements as well, including using email and demonstrating your ability to search the internet and to work with
live links to websites and web pages.

Instructions;
 If you don’t already have one, open a CSUN email account. Students can find information on how to activate their CSUN User ID
and password by visiting https://www.csun.edu/helpdesk/stuact.html
 Identify an ancient or non-western art form that interests you. Then search the web for a lesson plan for a K-5 unit on that art form.
You can choose any ancient, traditional or folk art form, so think about music, dance, and theater in addition to the visual arts.

Product. There are two parts to the final product of this assignment:
1. Technology requirement: Using your CSUN email account, send your instructor a live (clickable) link to the lesson plan. S/he
must be able to open the link and look at the lesson plan you have evaluated in order for you to get credit for the assignment. This
link must be in the body of an email message.

2. Evaluation of the lesson plan. Your evaluation of the lesson and discussion of its connection to the K-5 arts standards should be
500-750 words total. Your evaluation should:
 briefly describe the lesson plan (art form covered, grade(s) towards which it is geared; general nature of the activities)
 evaluate the lesson plan based on the following criteria:
1. Are the relevant content standards included and described. (CA standards must be translated from the National Arts
Standards to get credit)?
2. Are the objectives or goals stated? Do these include a discussion of how the content standard is met during the lesson?
3. Are the materials adequately listed or described?
4. Does the plan indicate the approximate amount of time it will take to teach the lesson?
5. Does the lesson make connections to other content standards (e.g., Social Science, History) in the curriculum as well as
the arts standards?
6. How well does the lesson plan describe what the teacher and students will do in the activity. This is the lesson
development. There should be good details in how to teach the lesson and it would be helpful to have guiding questions to
 help focus students. Also, in this part, the author must describe the art technique connected to the content standard. It is
not just a “ make and take” art/music/theater/dance project. What is the learning outcome?
7. Does the lesson include some form of assessment or evaluation? This is a necessary component in finding out what
students learned from the lesson.
8. Evaluate the lesson for its depth and understanding of the art form and its appropriateness in relation to the standards it
says it will meet.
9. Does the lesson plan provide any extras, such as links on the Internet, background information, connections to the other
arts etc?
 provide any other comments you think are relevant to a careful evaluation of this lesson plan (would you use it? why or what
not? in what ways might you modify it to make it more interesting/relevant/appropriate).

INSTRUCTORS: YOU NEED TO INDICATE HERE HOW YOU WANT THE WRITTEN PART OF THE ASSIGNMENT TO
COME TO YOU (IN THE BODY OF THE EMAIL, AS AN ATTACHMENT, OR AS HARD COPY TURNED IN IN CLASS).

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/Lessons/6-cave.htm