Solid, Liquid, Gas Poster

Standards Assessed
AL.SC.2.1. STANDARD: Identify states of matter as solids, liquids, and gases.
AL.LA.2.4. STANDARD: Demonstrate comprehension of second-grade reading
materials across the curriculum, including drawing simple conclusions,
classifying ideas and things, identifying sequence, and retelling directions
and information from informational and functional reading materials.
Description
The product of the valued performance project is a poster that
classifies objects as solids, liquids, and gases. The students may use
drawings, magazine clippings, or written words to specify three examples for
each phase of matter.
Directions
You will create a chart on a poster. You may write Solids, Liquids, and
Gases at the top, or divide the poster into thirds in a pie-chart style. Each
area must be labeled. There must be lines or borders separating each
category.
You will then add at least three examples for each category to the area
labeled. You may use drawings or magazine clippings as pictures of the
objects. Label each object.
Assessment Rubric
Criteria

4 Excellent

3 Acceptable

2 Needs
Improvement

1 Poor

Solids

3 or more
correct
examples

At least 3
examples, at
least 2
correct

At least 2
examples, at
least 1
correct

No correct
examples

Liquids

3 or more
correct
examples

At least 3
examples, at
least 2
correct

At least 2
examples, at
least 1
correct

No correct
examples

Gases

3 or more
correct

At least 3
examples, at

At least 2
examples, at

No correct

examples

least 2
correct

least 1
correct

examples

Pictures

Used 6 or
more
correctly
labeled
pictures as
examples

Used 4 or
more
correctly
labeled
pictures;
some pictures
labeled
incorrectly

Used 2 or
more
correctly
labeled
pictures;
most pictures
labeled
incorrectly or
not labeled

No pictures or
all incorrectly
labeled or not
labeled

Spelling

No spelling
errors

One or two
spelling
errors

Three spelling Four or more

errors
spelling
errors

Chart

Chart is done
correctly;
each
category is
well
organized
and defined

Chart is not
organized
correctly,
borders are
not clearly
defined

There are no
lines or
borders or
chart is not
labeled

There are no
lines or
borders and
chart is not
labeled

Validity Rationale
This project is a poster classifying different examples of solids, liquids and
gases using pictures. This project is used with third grade after learning
about the different phases of matter. It is relevant to life outside of school
because it will help students identify different phases of matter. It relates to
Standard AL.SC.3.1, which is distinguishing between different phases of
matter. The first three criterions relate to this standard. The second standard
is AL.LA.3.4. which is using functional reading materials and constructing
graphic organizers. The fourth, fifth, and sixth criterions relate to this
standard.