This rubric was created to help you assess your students on the Year 4 Biological sciences curriculum while completing the unit ‘Ecosystems’. Not only does it cover the knowledge and understanding section of the curriculum, but it will assist you in identifying the student’s work in the science enquiry skills as well.
Explain the roles and interactions of consumers, producers and decomposers within a habitat and how food chains represent feeding relationships
Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive
Different living things have different life cycles and depend on each other and the environment to survive
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter