NAME:_________________________________ DATE:______________PERIOD:_____________

CATEGORY
Content
This counts 3x!
Worth 30 points

10-9 points
All required information
is included. (see next
page)

8-7 points
90% of required
information are
included

6-5 points
80% pieces of
required information
are included

4-2 points
50-70% pieces of
required
information are
included.

1-0 points
50% or less of
required
information are
included.

There was no clear

or logical
organizational
structure, just lots
of facts. AND/OR
Slide order is not
followed.
5 or more errors in
spelling or
grammar.

Mixture of facts
on random slides
with no
organizational
structure.

Organization

Content is well
Content is MOSTLY
organized and there are logically organized.
at least 6 slides.
AND/OR 5 slides or
less

The overall
organization of topics
appears random.
AND/OR Slide order
is not followed.

Mechanics

None to 2 grammatical Three or fewer

errors.
misspellings and/or
mechanical errors.

Four misspellings
and/or grammatical
errors.

Attractiveness

Makes excellent use of

font, color, graphics,
effects, etc. to enhance
the presentation.

Makes good use of

font, color, graphics,
effects, etc. to enhance
to presentation.

Makes use of font,

color, graphics, effects,
etc. but occasionally
these detract from the
presentation content.

Is complete and well

done.

Is complete but messy Is very messy and

or difficult to
appears as though
understand.
very little effort was
used.

Eye Contact &

Interest
(presentation)

Notes

More than 10
errors in spelling
or grammar.

Hard to read font

or color.
AND/OR
Distracting
graphics, effects
and/or that are
not related to
content.
Excellent eye contact - Good Eye Contact Fair Eye Contact Minimal Eye
No eye contact
looking at the audience looking at the audience looking at audience
Contact looking at made.
over 90% of the time. 75% of the time.
50% of the time.
the audience 25% No interest at all
AND/OR Obvious
AND/OR
AND/OR
of the time.
in topic
interest in the topic,
Some interest in the
Low interest in the
AND/OR very low
energetic.
topic, body posture and topic, body posture and voice, minimal
voice show lack of
voice show lack of
interest in the topic,
interest
interest
body posture shows
lack of interest.
Student is very attentive Student is mostly
Students is not
Students is
Student is
and taking notes on
attentive and taking
attentive to the
disruptive or
disruptive or
their Geologic Timeline notes on their Geologic presenter. Notes are
distracting to the
distracting and/or
page.
Timeline page
minimal.
presenter.
has not taken any
notes.

OVERALL
Is complete, creative,
PRESENTATION and exceptional!

GEOLOGIC TIME FRAME:___________________________________

Use of font, color,

graphics, effects
etc. but these often
distract from the
presentation
content.

No effort was
used at all.
Content
presented is
contradictory to
facts known.

SCORE:________________

Geologic Time Line Project Rubric

Please see mrsmcd.weebly.org for more detailed project information,

Required Information:
Slide One and Two:
______Name of assigned time era, period, or epoch.
______Start (beginning of the time)
______End (ending of the time)
______Era and period is it a part of (if applicable)?
______Picture (overview)
______Your period time uniqueness (How will they know they are there, what could you
only find or see during this time period)?
Slide Three and Four:
______ Major events in geologic history occurred during this time For example:
information
of mountains, oceans, continents, volcanic activity, erosion, etc.
______Picture (what did the earth or continents look like?)
______What was the climate like?
Slide Five and Six:
______Animals or life forms lived during this time (at least 4 organisms)?
______Is the visitor likely to eat or be eaten?
______Plant life that lived during this time (at least 2 organisms)?
______Pictures of organisms
______What organisms first appeared during this time? (First began existing during this
time)
______What organisms disappeared during this time? (These organisms were not seen
anymore, their kind ended)