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Campaign/Product

Students create an original, accurate and interesting product that adequately addresses the issue.

Students create an accurate product that adequately addresses the issue.

Students create an accurate product but it does not adequately address the issue.

The product is not accurate.

Brainstorming - Problems

Students accurately identified a reasonable, insightful barrier/problem that needs to change.

Students adequately identified a reasonable, insightful barrier/problem that needs to change

Students acceptably identified a reasonable, insightful barrier/problem that needs to change.

Students insufficiently identified a reasonable, insightful barrier/problem that needs to change.

Brainstorming - Solutions

Students identify more than 3 reasonable, insightful possible solutions/strategies to encourage change.

Students identify at least 3 reasonable, insightful possible solutions/strategies to encourage change.

Students identify at least 2 reasonable, insightful possible solutions/strategies to encourage change.

Students identify less than 2 solutions.

Research/Statistical Data

Students include 4 or more high-quality examples or pieces of data to support their campaign.

Students include at least 3 high-quality examples or pieces of data to support their campaign.

Students include at least 2 high-quality examples or pieces of data to support their campaign.

Students include fewer than 2 high-quality examples or pieces of data to support their campaign.

Sources - Quality

Students include 4 or more high quality sources.

Students include 2-3 high quality sources .

Students include 2-3 sources but some of are questionable quality.

Students include fewer than 2 sources.

Sources-Citation

Information in all source citations is correct and in the format assigned.

Information in all source citations is correct but there are minor errors

Information in almost all source citations is correct AND there are minor errors.

The information is often incorrect OR there are major errors.