This rubric is designed to eliminate the guesswork when grading lab reports.
The data table includes 13 areas of criteria for evaluating the parts of a scientific investigation: Question, Hypothesis, Research, Procedures, Control(s), Independent Variable, Dependent Variable, Observations, Analysis, Conclusion, Safety, and Clean Up.
This rubric can be used for any science subject area or lab. I like to give the students a copy of this rubric to keep in their science notebooks/journals. I a