Grade: Kindergarten

Subject: Science

Submitted by: Andrea Sims

February 27, 2008

 

Performance Task:  Graphic Organizer

 

Goal: Create two graphic organizers. The first graphic organizer will sort living and non- living things. The second graphic organizer will give similarities and differences between two plants.

 

Role: You are an employee at Pikes nursery. The store manager would like for you to place all the living items on one shelf and all the non-living items on another shelf.

 

 

Audience: Your audience is the store manager of Pikes nursery. He wants to make see if you can sort the plant by living vs. non-living objects, and sort plants by their similarities and differences.

 

 

Situation: There has been an accident at the Pikes Plant nursery and everything at the store has been mixed together.  Our job is to place all the living items together and all the non-living objects together on different shelves. Once the manager sees all the living objects that have been placed on the shelves he wants the plants to be sorted by their similarities and differences.

 

Product: The student will create two graphic organizers of the various plants. The first graphic organizer will sort living and non-living objects. The second graphic organizer will sort two plants by their similarities and differences.

 

Standard- The graphic organizers must have at least three examples for each heading or side.

 

Plants

Performance Task- Rubric

 

Item

Thumbs up

Thumbs in middle

Thumbs down

 I can place three items on the living shelf

(3 points)

I can place

three items on the non-living shelf

(3 points)

I can sort (5) plants based on color

(5 points)

I can sort (5) plants  edible and non-edible

(5 points)

 

 

Name:_________________________________________________-

 

Score:          / 16

 

Total Rubric Points

             Grade Equivalent

 16- 12  points

     S (satisfactory)

  9 -11   points

     N (needs improvement)

  0- 8    points

     U  (unsatisfactory)