Performance Task
Imagine yourself being in a science laboratory for your class. Your
Science teacher asked you to examine an onion under a microscope. You are
provided with the following materials: compound microscope, onion, glass
slides, coverslips, toothpick, tissue paper, water, and dropper.
If you were to study the onion in a microscope, what are the steps
you are going to do? What techniques would you employ to successfully
obtain important details about your specimen? Discuss your answers in the
box provided
Your discussion would be rated with the following rubric:
3
2.
1
Content and
There is one
clear, well-
focused topic
Main ideas
are clear and
are well
supported by
detailed and
accurate
information
There is one
clear, well-
focused topic.
The main ideas
are clear but
are not well
supported by
detailed
information.
There is one
topic. Main
ideas are
somewhat
clear.
The topic and
main ideas are
not clear
Accuracy
Very organized
Organization
Organized
No
organization
Many spelling
Grammar and
Sentence
Structure
No spelling or
grammatical
Poorly
organization
Several
spelling or
grammatical
errors
or
Few spelling or
grammatical
errors
grammatical
errors
errors​