Rock Journal Rubric
Relative time:
Procedure used to make sandwich (first bread, then....) _____/1pt
Sandwich sketch _____/1pt
Layers Labeled to show relative time _____/1pt
Identification of Rocks w/food:
Sketches of "rock" samples ____/3pts
Descriptions:
detailed ____/2pts
non-food related describing words ____/2pts
Uses observations and prior knowledge of rocks to match food with:
Igneous Rock ____/4pts
Sedimentary Rock ____/4pts
Metamorphic Rock ____/4pts
Story:
Written from a rock’s point of view ___/3pts
(Teacher, depending on grade level, may want to include structure, spelling, grammar,
and other editing components as part of the rubric for the story)
Total: /25pts
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