Exceeds
Expectations-
- The laboratory activity is
feasible and challenging to students and makes use of
outside resources in support of the
laboratory.
- The objectives for the laboratory
creatively match the style of the laboratory activity:
science process skill, deductive or verification,
inductive, technical skill, and problem solving
(inquiry).
- The activity's procedures
effectively challenge students, but remain clear and
manageable for the students to carry out.
- The laboratory challenges students
in scientific inquiry skills; predicting, planning,
asking questions, data collection, data transformation
and analysis, drawing conclusions and communicating
findings.
- Safety considerations take a
prominent place in the laboratory write-up.
- Laboratory equipment and
computational/informational technology are creatively and
effectively utilized.
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Meets
Expectations-
- The laboratory activity is
feasible for use in a school laboratory
setting.
- The objectives for the laboratory
match the style of the laboratory activity: science
process skill, deductive or verification, inductive,
technical skill, and problem solving
(inquiry).
- The activity's procedures are
clear and manageable for the students to carry
out.
- The laboratory engages students in
a majority of scientific inquiry skills; predicting,
planning, asking questions, data collection, data
transformation and analysis, drawing conclusions and
communicating findings.
- The laboratory follows proper
safety guidelines and student safety concerns are clearly
stated.
- Laboratory equipment and
computational/informational technology are effectively
utilized.
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Working Towards
Expectations-
- The laboratory activity is has
components of feasibility, but some components are not
age or developmentally appropriate for use in a school
laboratory setting.
- The objectives for the laboratory
partially matches the components of the style of the
laboratory activity: science process skill, deductive or
verification, inductive, technical skill, and problem
solving (inquiry).
- The activity's procedures are
somewhat clear and manageable for the students to carry
out.
- The laboratory engages students in
some aspects of scientific inquiry skills; predicting,
planning, asking questions, data collection, data
transformation and analysis, drawing conclusions and
communicating findings.
- The laboratory follows safety
guidelines, but not all safety guidelines are
addressed.
- Laboratory equipment and
computational/informational technology are utilized but
not effectively at all times.
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Does
not meet expectations-
- Most of the laboratory components
are not age or developmentally appropriate for use in a
school laboratory setting.
- There is a mismatch between the
objectives for the laboratory and the style of the
laboratory activity: science process skill, deductive or
verification, inductive, technical skill, and problem
solving (inquiry).
- The activity's procedures are not
clear and may not be manageable for the students to carry
out.
- The laboratory makes minimal use
of scientific inquiry processes; predicting, planning,
asking questions, data collection, data transformation
and analysis, drawing conclusions and communicating
findings.
- Important safety concerns are not
addressed.
- Laboratory equipment and
computational/informational technology are poorly
utilized.
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Not adequate-
- No consideration has been given to
the feasibility of the laboratory activities.
- There is no match between the
objectives for the laboratory and the style of the
laboratory activity: science process skill, deductive or
verification, inductive, technical skill, and problem
solving (inquiry).
- The activity's procedures are not
clear and not manageable for the students to carry
out.
- The laboratory makes no use of
scientific inquiry processes; predicting, planning,
asking questions, data collection, data transformation
and analysis, drawing conclusions and communicating
findings.
- Important safety concerns are not
addressed and the procedures are unsafe.
- Laboratory equipment and
computational/informational technology are
inappropriately utilized.
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