Timeline Grading Rubric

Excellent Meets Most Needs BLU

4 Expectations expectations met Improvement Below Level
3 – 2 1 Understanding
The title is
The timeline has a The timeline
The timeline has difficult to
Title creative/attractive has an No title
a title. read or
title. effective title.
locate.
The timeline The timeline
Documentation The timeline lists 155 contains at least The timeline
of Events 6
contains all 15 significant 4 significant
8-10 contains only
There are less than 5
significant events. events. This events. This 5-8
1-3 events on the timeline
This includes date includes includes significant
and description. approximate approximate events.
date. dates.
Ruler clearly used
comments: to mark of years as Text Years are
inches and show Years are marked in
Years are marked
Accuracy – months accurately; marked off by inches; little Line is drawn without
in inches. Some
Each Year is 1 at some point on inches; months attempt to using inches to
dates/months are
Inch the timeline are accurately show where indicate years.
correctly shown
months are indicated. months
indicated for ¼ occurred
inches
Timeline looks Difficult to
Highly attractive
nice; efforts Some read in many
timeline that
Appearance were clearly erasing/scribbling areas; looks Hard to read and/or
stands out clearly
made to take visible; mostly kind of appears unfinished.
and is creatively
time to easy to read. “thrown
completed
complete. together”
5 or more images 5 or more 3-5 pictures are 1-2 pictures
are effective and images are on timeline, but were added.
Graphics and clearly relate to used and one or more No images are
Pictures items on timeline; relate to connections are included
balanced with text timeline events unclear.
use.