THE SOLAR SYSTEM

 Components

Excellent

20 points

Good

17 points

Fair

14 points

Poor

10 points

Points 

Creativity

Student showed large amounts of creativity. All planets are the correct color and imagination has been used when designing the model.

Thought has been put into the project. The planets are close to the correct color and there is evidence of student effort.

Some thought has been put into the project. There is some color and a few planets are colored incorrectly.

Very little or no creativity. No color is used or the planets are all colored incorrectly.

All planets are found.

 All planets are accounted for.

One planet is missing.

Two planets are missing.

Three or more planets are missing.

Proportion/Scale

All of the planets are roughly proportional to each other.

Most of the planets are proportional to each other.

There a couple of mistakes with the proportions of the planets.

Planets are not correctly proportioned. (Pluto should not be larger than Jupiter.)

Labels

All planets are correctly and clearly labeled.

All planets are correctly labeled, but are difficult to read or find.

Planets are incorrectly labeled or the labels are almost impossible to read.

Planets are not labeled or the labels are impossible to read.

Planets are in the correct order.

All the planets were in the correct order.

One or two planets are out of order.

Three or more planets are out of order.

Planets are not in the correct order or many are out of place.