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Creating an Online Newspaper Rubric for students groups creating an online newspaper featuring current information on issues affecting Maryland's ecology and environmental concerns. Rubric Code: PX9A9B By neercf Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Science Type: Project Grade Levels: K-5, 6-8, 9-12

Online Environmental Newspaper Small groups will work together to create an online newspaper about Maryland Environmental Issues
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 2 pts	Acceptable 3 pts	Good 4 pts	Excellent 5 pts
Organization Students will use creativity and structure in their online newspaper.	Poor Failed to select an appropriate format to communicate research findings.	Fair Needed to select a more effective format to structure and communicate research findings.	Acceptable Selected an appropriate format to structure and communicate research findings.	Good Selected an appropriate and effective format to creatively communicate research findings.	Excellent Selected an appropriate and effective format to excite reader interest and creatively communicate research findings.
Website Selection Students are required to choose appropriate sources	Poor Included less than three online articles that are about Maryland's ecology or environment and are within the last year.	Fair Included at least three articles that are about Maryland's ecology or environment and are within the last year.	Acceptable Included at least five articles that are about Maryland's ecology or environment and are within the last year.	Good Included six or more articles that are about Maryland's ecology or environment and are within the last year. At least one article is within the last six months.	Excellent Included six or more articles that are about Maryland's ecology or environment and are within the last year. At least three articles are within the last six months.
Photo, Graphics, Sound, and Video. Students will use photos, graphics, sound and video to enhance online newspaper.	Poor Failed to include photographs, graphics, sounds, and/or videos.	Fair Photographs, graphics, sounds, and/or videos are inappropriate for the content or are distracting decorations that create a busy feeling and detract from the content.	Acceptable A few photographs, graphics, sound and/or video are inappropriate for the content and/or do not create interest.	Good Most of the photographs, graphics, sound and/or video enhance the content and create interest.	Excellent All of the photographs, graphics, sound and/or video enhance the content and create interest.
Editing Students will edit the newspaper so that it is generally free of errors	Poor Writing needs serious improvement when it comes to capitalization, spelling, and punctuation.	Fair Writing has errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, and some errors are repeated throughout the project.	Acceptable Writing has some errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation, but they are not repeated throughout the project.	Good Writing has few errors in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.	Excellent Writing is consistently correct in spelling, capitalization, and punctuation.
Proper Citation Students are required to cite sources according to APA rules	Poor Failed to site two or more sources.	Fair Created citations which were incomplete or inaccurate, and provided no way to check the validity of the information gathered.	Acceptable Cited most sources of information improperly and provided little or no supporting documentation to check accuracy.	Good Cited most sources of information in proper format and documented sources to enable accuracy checking.	Excellent Cited all sources of information accurately to demonstrate the credibility and authority of the information presented.

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