3 D Cardboard Sculpture

Poor Fair Good Exceptional

1 pts 2 pts 3 pts 4 pts
Preliminary Poor Fair Good Exceptional GRADING KEY
Design Planning
+Student made half-hearted +Student created adequate +Student created thoughtful and +Student created thoughtful, 14 - 16= A- to A+
attempt at making preliminary sketches for project useful sketches for project accurate and useful sketches for
sketches project 11 - 13= B- to B+
+No significant evidence of +Can see some evidence of
+No evidence of sketch ideas in preliminary sketch ideas in preliminary sketch ideas in +Student followed preliminary 8 - 10= C- to C+
finished work finished work finished work designs to create project
5 - 7= D- to D+

4= 0

Quality of Poor Fair Good Exceptional

Construction
+Sculpture poorly put together.
Does not stand up well.
+Paint is applied sloppily or not at
all. Color seems arbitrarily chosen
Sculpture stands up and is
mostly put together well
+Paint is applied adequately
but with little evidence of
students knowledge of Color
Theory
+Sculpture stands up and is put Sculpture is put together well
together well and in a creative manner that
shows originality
+Paint is applied using some
concepts of Color Theory +Student put a lot of thought in
to the colors, patterns and
application of paint

Effectiveness of Poor Fair Good Exceptional

Design
+Sculpture is not effective visually-
The Principles of Art have not been
addressed: balance, unity, rhythm,
pattern, contrast
+Sculpture has some
interesting areas and
incorporates some of the
Principles of Art
+Sculpture has some
interesting parts from all view
points
+Sculpture has many interesting
areas and incorporates many of
the Principles of Art
+Sculpture has many interesting
parts when viewed from different
angles
+Sculpture is very strong visually,
uses many of the Principles of
Art
+Sculpture is original and unique
from all view points

Student Poor Fair Good Exceptional

Understanding of
Project +Student did not seem to
understand the ideas of abstracting
a shape and of 3 dimensional art
and the importance of being able
to view it from all angles
+Student got the ideas of
abstracting a shape and of 3
dimensional art but was not
able to express it in this work
+Student got the ideas of
abstracting a shape and creating it
in 3 dimensions and did an
adequate job in creating their
idea
+Student got the ideas of
abstracting a shape and creating
it in 3 dimensions and did so
with a unique and original vision