Criteria	Exemplary	Proficient	Developing	Beginning	Inadequate
Completeness of the assignment (30%)	Poster includes all of the required elements	Poster includes most of the required elements	Poster lacks some of the key points but demonstrates and understanding	Poster is missing significant elements.	Poster is missing over half of the required elements. Didn’t use template
Comprehension and Demonstration of Understanding (30%)	Student presents a clear and strong explanation and identifies organism, type of organism incident, cause of illness. Provides logical list of safety tips and relevant additional information.	Students demonstrates and understanding of the organisms and how they make people sick. Maybe limited in scope of relevant details.	Student’s explanation lack clear understanding of the key points on the illness, safety incident or has irrelevant in information.	Student’s explanation lacks many of the key points needed to describe the organism, incident or safety tips.	Inaccurately chosen organisms or incident.
Application and Accuracy (30%)	Examples and details support a strong explanation and support a strong understanding.	Attempts to share examples that further demonstrates understanding.	Lacks strong connection beyond simply stating facts	Simply meets the assignment criteria with no attempt to make stronger connections.	Missing examples or details needed to illustrate the connections.
Writing Skills (5%)	Mechanics (spelling, grammar, and punctuation) are flawless, including proficient demonstration of citations and formatting throughout the entire assignment.	Mechanics (spelling, grammar, and punctuation) are accurate including demonstration of citations and formatting within a majority of the assignment.	Partial errors with mechanics (spelling, grammar, and punctuation) including demonstration of citations and formatting within minimal portions of the assignment.	Multiple errors with mechanics (spelling, grammar, and punctuation), inaccurate demonstration of citations and formatting.	Unreadable
Research Skill (5%)	Include reference list and in-text citations	Makes an effort to cite references and quotations.	References are present but not lack a clear way to find the resource.	No evident of references cited.	Missing references when references were used.