Student Friendly Rubric

Investigate the World / Recognize Viewpoints / Communicate
Ideas / Take
Action
Look beyond your own community / Understand your viewpoints and others’ viewpoints / Explain your ideas in way that best helps others understand (not what is easy for you, but what is easy for them) / Use ideas to improve the world around you
•Find goodinformation to answer questions about a region or country from different kinds of sources.
•Checkfor truthfulness and importance. Answer questionswhile looking at all of the major issues to help solve a problem.
•People with different backgrounds could answer the same question in different ways. Show how that can happen. Explain your thinking. / •Explainyour thinking about situations, events, or issues. Show how what you know and believeshapedyour explanation.
•Explain how other people might think about situations, events, or issues. Show how what they know and believeshapes their viewpoint.
•People from different cultures often work together. Explain how each person’s views and knowledge might change when they listen to other’s views and knowledge.
•Not everyone has the same information. They have different ways to get information. Computers, newspapers and TV may not give all of the facts. Books might be scarce. Explain how viewpoints and beliefs would changewhen informationchanges. / •Explain how people from different places or backgrounds couldunderstand the same information in a different way.
•Explain how you would need to change your language and body languageto share your ideas with different people.
•Show how learning to communicate well with people from different places and backgrounds improves understanding. Explain how ithelps everyone work together more successfully.
•People communicate in different ways. Show how to use different media and technology to communicate with people from other places and backgrounds in the best way. / •Show that you can explain an issue to others thathelpsto improve a local, regional, or global problem.
•Find ways for you and others you work with can “make a difference.”
•Use facts and evidence to find differentways to solve a problem. Show how each solution might be different if people are fromother backgrounds and beliefs. Explainhow you knew what was the best choice.
•Act by yourself or with otherstocreate ways to improve local, regional, or global problems.