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Garden Plan Garden Plan This is an assessment used to evaluate high school students in planning a vegetable garden. Students need to plan one 20X30 garden plot that includes at least 10 different species of plants. Rubric Code: V93B6X By elpueblo Ready to use Public Rubric Subject: Vocational Type: Assessment Grade Levels: 9-12

Garden Plan Enter rubric description
	Excellent Perfected 4 pts	Good Good effort 3 pts	Fair Attempted effort 2 pts	Poor Shows little effort 1 pts
Part of Plant 25 % Edible plant parts that are included - at least two for each type - roots, stems, leaves	Excellent Includes 2 types of edible roots, stems, and leaves in the garden plan and has each label accordingly	Good Includes 2 types of edible roots, stems, and leaves in the garden plan, but is missing the labels	Fair Missing 1 of the 3 main parts of the plant that are edible from the plan, has what is there labeled	Poor Missing 2 of the 3 main parts of the plant that are edible from the plan, has what is there labeled OR Has 1 of the three parts missing, but is not labeled
Life Cycle 25 % Each Plant is labeled with its correct life cycle - must include at least 2 perennial and 2 annuals	Excellent All plants have their life cycles labeled and have at least 2 perennials and 2 annuals	Good All plants have their life cycles labeled but are missing either perennial or annual plants	Fair Less than 25% of the plants have life cycle missing	Poor More than 25% of the plants have their life cycles missing
Tropisms 15 % At least 2 plants in plan grow with some type of response (thigmotropism, gravitropism, hydrotropism, etc.)	Excellent Two plants are correctly labeled with a tropism.	Good One plant is correctly labeled with a tropism.	Fair Two plants are labeled with a tropism, but it is incorrect.	Poor Only 1 plant is labeled with a response, response is incorrect.
Spacing 15 % Garden is laid out to scale	Excellent Garden is laid out to scale with a legend present showing scale used	Good Garden is laid out to scale but is missing legend	Fair Garden is well laid out, but not to scale	Poor Garden is just thrown together on a piece of paper
Pricing 10 % Each plant used in the design has a price by seed or plant	Excellent All prices are present for plants/seeds selected	Good 75% of prices are listed for plants selected	Fair 50% of prices are listed for plants selected	Poor 25% or less of prices are listed for plants selected
Hardiness 10 % Plants selected are appropriate for Zone 4	Excellent All plants selected are appropriate for zone 4	Good 75% of plants selected are appropriate for zone 4	Fair 50% of plants selected are appropriate for zone 4	Poor Less than 25% of plants selected are not appropriate for zone 4 hardiness