G10-SCIENCE (RUBRICS)
Emerging (5)                 Competent (5)                 Proficient (5)            Distinguished (5)
Illustration               Illustration is somewhat messy      Illustration is neat     Illustration is impeccable
  is messy                 and shows either smudge marks      and shows very little            and shows no
and shows                       or rips, tears, or folds.     evidence of smudge           evidence of smudge
   smudge                   Some erasure lines showing.       marks, rips, tears, or    marks, rips, tears, or folds.
marks and                                                     folds. A few erasure      No erasure lines showing.
rips, tears,                                                     lines showing.
  or folds.
   Erasure
     lines
 showing.
    Illustration                Illustration shows some         Illustration shows         Illustration shows a
lacks technique            technique and understanding of      good technique. All         mastery of advanced
       and/or                the concepts. Average use of     objects are placed in            techniques in
 understanding                negative and positive space.         correct space.        composition. All objects
of art concepts.                 Paper is half filled and     Negative and positive        are placed in correct
   Paper is left            foreground and background is          space is almost          space. Negative and
 mainly blank,                       clearly shown.             balanced. Paper is      positive space is balanced.
     little area                                                drawn on leaving        Paper is completely drawn
  drawn on and                                                  some area undone              on and shows a
 does not show                                                      and shows a          background, mid-ground
 a background,                                                  background, mid-              and foreground.
   mid-ground                                                       ground and
       and/or                                                       foreground.
   foreground.
   Illustration shows          Illustration shows some         Illustration reflects    Illustration reflects a high
little or no evidence of   evidence of originality. Student        originality.             level of originality.
    original thought.       uses line, shading or form in a     Student uses line,      Student uses line, shading
 Student does not use          slightly original manner.      shading or form in an         or form in a highly
 line, shading or form                                           original manner.             original manner.
 in a creative manner.
      Completed
      illustration          Completed illustration is half           Completed           Completed illustration is
         is not               shaded showing average           illustration is almost       fully shaded showing
       shaded or            placement of light and darks      fully shaded showing         excellent placement of
      incorrectly              using average drawing            good placement of           light and darks using
        shaded.               technique. Some still life      light and darks using           excellent drawing
        Still life          objects are in proportion with         good drawing         technique. Still life objects
      objects are                  real life objects.           technique. Still life          are in excellent
     incorrect in                                             objects are mostly in       proportion with real life
      proportion                                              good proportion with                 objects.
       with real                                                  real life objects.
     life objects.