iRubric: Food Web & Ecological Pyramids rubric

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Food Web & Ecological Pyramids Food Chains and Food Webs students (groups of 3) make a food web using 2 producers, 12 consumers and 1 decomposer. Then each student chooses one chain within the web and creates one of the three ecological pyramids (numbers, biomass and energy) Rubric Code: SX3CX4 By moreyke Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Science Type: Presentation Grade Levels: 9-12

Food Chains and Food Webs
	Poor 1 pts	Fair 3 pts	Good 5 pts
Food Web	Poor Food Web does not contain producers, consumers and decomposers. Producers, consumers and decomposers are not in correct order.	Fair Food Web contains producers, consumers and decomposers, but they are not in correct order.	Good Food Web contains producers, consumers and decomposers and all are in correct order.
Content	Poor Poster only shows 2 levels on the Food Chain or Food Web.	Fair Poster shows 3 levels on the Food Chain or Food Web.	Good Poster shows 4 or more levels on Food Chain.
Labeling	Poor autotrophs, heterotrophs and decomposers are not labeled.	Fair autotrophs, heterotrophs (all levels) and decomposers are labeled, but some are incorrect.	Good autotrophs, heterotrophs (all levels) and decomposers are labeled correctly.
Ecological pyramids	Poor pyramids do not represent food chains within the food web.	Fair pyramids represent food chains w/in food web but unreasonable in amount or incorrectly built	Good pyramids represent food chains w/in food web, are reasonable in their amount & correctly built