Marine Biology Reflection Rubric

Marine Biology 2012 – Reflection

Complete the following three sections (Summary, Reflection, Creativity) as you look back and reflect on what you learned and experienced through your marine biology trip.

Summary (5 points):

·       Spend a minimum of ½ a page summarize your experience.

o   You can summarize your experience by re-telling what happened, creating a list of events, capturing different moments in a story, poetry, photo essay, etc…

Reflection (10 points): ***MOST IMPORTANT PART OF THE REFLECTION***

·      List 5 reasons WHY the Marine Biology trips are an important part of the middle school experience at Sunnyside. EXPLAIN.

·      What does Marine Biology mean to you?

·      List 3 things you learned about “Marine Biology” through your experience

·      List 3 things you learned about yourself on this trip (***most important question of this section***)

·      Spend 1 paragraph convincing others of the importance of going on a marine biology trip at the end of the year

·      Come up with three words that capture the big ideas of your marine biology experience ‘

Optional  - extra credit:

Creativity (5 points): Complete one of the following prompts as your creative piece

I. WRITING: Choose 1 of the following:

***This should be a minimum of 1 page***

• An editorial or letter to the editor
• A feature article that supplies facts about an area or issue
• A short-story that relates to Marine Biology
• A fake interview written as a newspaper article with someone in the marine biology field
• A biography about a famous marine biographer
• A travel article on a place to see marine life

II. ART: Choose 1 of the following to create a marine biology graphics page:

• Collage
• Photograph Essay
• Maps
• Labeled diagram (habitat, anatomy)
• Ocean scene
• Ocean food web
• Choice (check with teacher)

III. CREATIVITY: Choose from 1 of the following to create and connect to your marine

         biology experience

• Cartoon, poetry, recipe related things you saw, crossword puzzle/word search, graph, list of interesting facts, how-to-column related to marine biology, anything else you can think of!

IV. RESEARCH: Research an issue or conflict related to something you have learned about this year or on your marine biology trip.

·       In a minimum of ½ page complete the following:

·       Summarize the issue

·       Explain who is involved in the issue

·       What is currently being done to help or address this issue

·       What are things that can be done to help

IV. RESEARCH: Research an issue or conflict related to something you have learned about this year or on your marine biology trip.