Category                              4                      3                    2                        1
Appearance of the Project   The project’s           The project’s         The project’s        The project’s appearance
(15%)                       appearance is           appearance is quite   appearance is        is quite poor with many
                            professional and        professional and      somewhat poor        distractive elements.
                            polished without        polished with a few   with some
                            distractive             distractive           distractive
                            elements.               elements.             elements.
Content                     The project’s           The project’s         The project’s        The project’s contents is
Facts                       contents is             contents is good      contents is          poor and suggests the
(20%)                       exemplary and           and suggests the      fair/poor and        students has not done
                            suggests the            student has           suggests the         sufficient research.
                            students has            discovered most of    students has not
                            discovered the          the important facts   discovered most of
                            important ideas of      of his/her topic.     his/her topic.
                            his/her topic.
Images and Models           All images or           All images or         Some images or       Too few images or
(15%)                       models are              models are            models are           models are used to be an
                            effective.              effective, but they   effective.           effective presentation.
                                                    appear to be too
                                                    few or too many.
Style & Organization        Display is              Display is            Some parts of the    Display uninteresting, not
(10%)                       interesting and         interesting and       display are          tidy. Materials are
                            attractive.             attractive.           interesting, not     incomplete and not
                            Materials are           Materials are         tidy. Some           organized. Presentation
                            complete and            complete and well     materials are        has no sequence or plan
                            organized to            organized.            complete and         is evident.
                            present the ideas       Presentation has      organized.
                            well.                   sequence and plan     Presentation has
                                                    is evident.           some sequence
                                                                          and plan evident.
Creativity and Appearance   Project is              Good creative         Some attempt was     Little attempt was made
(10%)                       excellently             effort. Project is    made to add color    to add color or
                            presented               neat and shows        and originality.     originality. Project has
                            reflecting creativity   evidence of time      Project is neat.     sloppy appearance.
                            and a lot of            and spent on it.
                            thought.
Knowledge                   The diorama             The diorama           The diorama          The diorama
(20%)                       demonstrates a          demonstrates good     demonstrates         demonstrates very little
                            thorough                knowledge of the      some knowledge of    knowledge of the subject
                            knowledge of the        subject               the subject          investigated.
                            subject                 investigated.         investigated.
                            investigated.
Light
(10%)
    Criteria for rating Diorama Diorama Rubric