📊 Assessment Rubric
Aromatawai - Kaitiakitanga Unit

Student Name: _________________ Date: _________________

Kaitiaki Action Project Assessment

Students create a display/presentation showing their kaitiakitanga learning journey.

Criteria Beginning (1) Developing (2) Proficient (3) Advanced (4)
Place evidence & boundary reasoning
Map, a boundary WITH a reason, usable observations
Draws the place; boundary unclearStates a boundary; some observations recordedBoundary stated with a reason; six observations, most classifiedBoundary reasoned; six clear observations, all correctly classified
Survey evidence
Fixed-area counts, comparison, evidence-based explanation
Counts with support in one spotCounts a fixed area in one spotCounts two spots and notes a differenceCounts two spots and explains the difference using an observed condition
Cause & effect reasoning
Issue, likely cause, effect, who benefits
Names an issueNames an issue and a possible causeLinks issue, cause and effectLinks issue, cause, effect and who or what benefits, citing their own evidence
Accountable care commitment
WHO, HOW OFTEN, HOW WE WOULD KNOW
Offers a caring ideaCommitment names what will be doneCommitment names who and how oftenCommitment names who, how often, AND how they would know it worked
Feasible action & measurement
Constraints, baseline, reproducible before/after
Takes part in an actionPlans an action with a time and a personChecks constraints and takes a before-measurePlans within constraints; before and after measured the same way, same spot, dated
Claim, evidence, limit, next
Conclusion supported by their own data
Says what they didMakes a claim about the placeClaim supported by collected evidenceClaim from own data, plus one honest limitation and a justified next step

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