Science Unit Nam Claire Constable, Carlo DAmico, Eleanor McClafferty & Courtney Spezza

Rubric es:
Topic: The 5 Senses Level: Foundation
Above Standard
Approaching
Criteria (beginning next At Standard Below standard
Standard
level)
Knowledg The student has gained an The student has The student is The student has
e and extensive awareness of demonstrated awareness of demonstrating some demonstrated little
Understan the five senses. They are the five senses, identifying progress towards naming progress in naming the fi
ding able to describe and their characteristics and the five senses and their senses and their associa
understand the their associated body parts. associated body parts. body parts.
importance of the five
senses and their use in
engaging with everyday
life / the world around
them.

Science The student has The student has The student is The student has not yet
Inquiry demonstrated a demonstrated competence demonstrating some shown the capacity to
comprehensive in predicting, observing and progress in formulating formulate predictions,
competence in predicting, answering questions about predictions, adequate make observations and
observing and answering the five senses and is able observations skills and answer given questions
questions about the five to compare them with those answer given questions about the five senses.
senses by using a range of of others. about the five senses.
methods and suggesting
possible reasons for
findings.
The student has
demonstrated extended
scientific language use
and the ability to critically
analyse patterns among
these ideas.
The student has The student is The student has not yet
demonstrated adequacy in demonstrating some developed the skill of us
the use of descriptive progress in using descriptive language to
language as well as descriptive language as communicate ideas and
drawings to communicate well as drawings to mainly resorts to picture
ideas. communicate ideas. alone.