iRubric: Boat Building rubric

Student makes no effort on project.

Student allows partner to complete majority of the project, doing very little work themselves or takes on all tasks, not allowing partner to participate.

Students each do the same amount of work, but do not collaborate to learn as much as possible from eachother.

Students work together, make compromises, share data and participate completely throughout the entire unit to make the project the best it can be.

Student does not participate in density workshop.

Student participates, but does not understand density well and its relationship to math, building and boats and cannot use formulas to find answers or measure effectively. Cannot explain density during presentation.

Student participates and understands the concept of density and can use formulas to solve problems. Cannot fully explain their data about density during presentation.

Student participates and becomes creative during density experiment, can easily explain density and find measurements to use to solve formulas. Can present their density data during presentation and explain how that was used in the project.

Student does not produce a model boat, does not find costs of materials.

Student creates a boat with an inaccurate design model, that does not float, finds some prices but does not use it to produce anything further.

Student creates a boat that floats and can explain the shape and measurements.Student finds the price of materials for the model boat and the estimation of the cost of a life size boat.

Student produces an attractive boat that can float and explains the process the student used to create the boat that the student envisioned through trial and error along with measuring and mathematic solutions. The cost of the life size boat and model boat are calculated, broken down and explained.