Integrated Science and Writing
This lesson is just a small part of our ROCK UNIT. It is an opportunity for students to express themselves in writing when describing rocks. We would have a word wall for rock related words posted. This lesson would be used early in the year. I would save their writing and have them write additional adjectives for it -- to make their paragraph even more interesting --at another session later in the year.
The illustration below would look like their first draft should. They would then get a new sheet of paper with space for an illustration at the top and lines on the bottom for their paragraph. Their final drafts (illustration and paragraph) would be bound into a class book for all to read during self-selected reading.
I could take photos of them holding their rocks with my digital camera to save for identifying the rock of each student for our future project later in the year in case they need to look at it again when adding adjectives.
Below, you will find examples of a teacher rubric and also one for students to use while doing their project. I like for students to have individual rubrics when possible but if not I try to post one in the room for them to check against their project.
Rubric for Science Writing Project -- Teacher Version
To earn a score of 4, student must:
Write 5 sentences: a beginning and ending sentence and three sentences describing their rock using words from their graphic organizer
Write neatly, forming letters correctly
Capitalize beginning of sentences
Use punctuation at end of sentence
Indent the first sentence of a paragraph
Leave spaces between words
Draw Illustration to match words of paragraph
To earn a score of 3, student must:
Write a beginning and ending of paragraph and at least two sentences in the middle, describing their rock from their graphic organizer
Write neatly most of the time
Capitalize most of the sentences
Use punctuation at end of sentence
Indent the first sentence of a paragraph
Leave spaces between most of the words
Illustrate but not necessarily color to match words of paragraph
To earn a score of 2, student must:
Write a beginning sentence and some description of the rock using words from their graphic organizer in one or more sentences
Write neatly part of the time
Capitalize at least the first sentence
Use very little punctuation at end of sentences
Forget to indent first sentence
Leave occasional spaces between words
Attempt to illustrate rock but does not color it
To earn a score of 1, student must:
Write some words
Write very few letters neatly
Forget to use capital letters at beginning of most/all sentences
Forget to use punctuation for endings of most sentences
Forget to indent the paragraph
Forget to space most words
Forget to illustrate/finish illustration of rock or color it
Rubric for Science Writing Project -- Student Version
To earn a score of 4, you must:
Write 5 sentences: a beginning sentence, three sentences using the words from your graphic organizer and an ending sentence
Write neatly
Use capital letters at beginning of all sentences
Use periods at the end of all sentences
Indent the first sentence of the paragraph
Leave a space between words
Draw a picture to match the words you wrote
To earn a score of 3, you must:
Write a beginning and ending sentence and at least two sentences in the middle, describing your rock by using words from your graphic organizer
Write neatly most of the time
Use capital letters at the beginning of most sentences
Use periods at the end of most sentences
Indent the first sentence of the paragraph
Leave a space between most of the words
Draw a picture but coloring or shape might not match words in paragraph exactly
To earn a score of 2, you must:
Write a beginning sentence and one or more descriptions of the rock using words from graphic organizer but no ending sentence
Write neatly part of the time
Use capital letter for at least one sentence
Use periods at the end of some sentences
Forget to indent the first sentence
Use some spaces between words
Try to draw the rock but does not color it
To earn a score of 1, you must:
Write some words from graphic organizer but no sentences
Write sloppy letters
Forget to use capital letters for most of the sentences
Forget to use periods for most of the ending of sentences
Forget to indent the first sentence
Forget to use spaces between most of the words
Forget to complete a drawing of rock / color it
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