1. Were is Africa ? South of Europe and Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
2. How do Animals Adapt to the Heat ? Most animals have a special ability to absorb hot air and then make it into cold air and all the warm air goes out the ears like a jackrabbit it big ears radiate heat to stay cool.
3. Do Animals come out at Night in Africa ? Yes they do they come out to eat other animals. Like dingos, scorpions, Owls, Turtles, Kangaroo Rats.
4. Does it ever rain in Africa and if it does does the rain have any affect to the land ? Yes it does rain in the desert the effect is that new plants and animals come out like Prawns and Pig or Wild Boors and The Cactus's becomes wet and soggy for animals to eat.
5. What animals live in Africa ? African Giraffe, Elephant, Cheetah, Rhino, Lion, Hyena, Buffalo, Crocodile Etc
Research Report : Inquiry Learning Rubric Level 4
CATEGORY
Critical
Below Expectation
At Expectation
Above Expectation
Topic Choice
Topic choice is not suitable for Inquiry Based Learning. Student is unable to work independently.
Topic choice is suitable for Inquiry Based learning. Student required a lot of teacher support.
Topic choice is suitable for Inquiry Based Learning. Student demonstrates lower order thinking skills in selection of topic.
Topic choice demonstrates deliberate thought and draws on higher order thinking skills. Topic is relevant to today and is of public and social interest.
Question Generation
Student has generated questions that are irrelevant to topic.
Student has generated mainly closed type questions. Teacher support needed.
Student has generated mainly open type questions which indicate some higher order thinking skills. Minimal teacher support needed.
Student has generated thought provoking questions which demonstrate higher order thinking skills. Able to work completely independently.
Locating Information
Student is unable to locate information on topic.
Student requires teacher support to locate information on topic.
Student is able to locate and retrieve information on topic with minimal teacher support.
Student is able to locate and retrieve information on topic independent of teacher.
Quality of Information
Information located has little or nothing to do with the topic.
Information located mainly relates to the topic. Answers are written briefly with no detail.
Information clearly relates to the main topic. Answers are written with some detail.
Information clearly relates to the main topic. Answers include several supporting details and/or examples.
Summarising/Paraphrasing
Student has copied and pasted all information with no attempt to re-write in own words.
Student has copied and pasted some information. Has made some effort to summarise information into own words.
Student has summarised and paraphrased information. Sentences are mainly simple and compound.
Student has summarised and paraphrased information succinctly. Sentences are well constructed using a variety of sentence structures for effect.
Surface Features
Grammatical and spelling errors are numerous. Exceedingly difficult for the reader to make meaning of.
Some spelling and grammatical errors are present.
Few spelling and grammatical errors are present but do not detract from the understanding of the reader.
Grammatically correct and error free.
Layout and Design
Layout is completely disorganised with no thought given to background colour and fonts. Has no reader impact. Images are irrelevant to topic.
Layout is somewhat disorganised. Evidence of some thought given to background colour and font but has little impact on the reader. Images are mostly relevant to the topic.
Layout is organised neatly with suitable background colours and fonts. Clear and easy to read with some impact on the reader.Images are relevant to topic.
Layout is well organised with deliberate thought given to background colours and fonts. Has the wow factor. Images added enhance the overall impact.
I was pretty inpressed what I did I thought it would
Africa
1. Were is Africa ? South of Europe and Between the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean.
2. How do Animals Adapt to the Heat ? Most animals have a special ability to absorb hot air and then make it into cold air and all the warm air goes out the ears like a jackrabbit it big ears radiate heat to stay cool.
3. Do Animals come out at Night in Africa ? Yes they do they come out to eat other animals. Like dingos, scorpions, Owls, Turtles, Kangaroo Rats.
4. Does it ever rain in Africa and if it does does the rain have any affect to the land ? Yes it does rain in the desert the effect is that new plants and animals come out like Prawns and Pig or Wild Boors and The Cactus's becomes wet and soggy for animals to eat.
5. What animals live in Africa ? African Giraffe, Elephant, Cheetah, Rhino, Lion, Hyena, Buffalo, Crocodile Etc
Research Report : Inquiry Learning Rubric Level 4
I was pretty inpressed what I did I thought it would
not be that good but it ended up being queit good
according to the rubric.