Create rubric criteria: Look at your first grade standards, objectives and benchmarks. Decide which objectives you will be assessing in your rubric. Make a list of your objectives and rewrite them in easier language if necessary to make them kid-friendly. This will become your criteria for your rubric.
Analytic vs. holistic rubric: Decide whether you would like to create an analytic or holistic rubric. An analytic rubric provides performance levels for each criterion provided, allowing grading to be specific for each objective. A holistic rubric assesses students on a whole, giving them an overall score, based on all of the criteria.
Levels of performance: A rubric must include at least two levels of performance. You can classify your levels in different ways by using numbers, satisfactory/unsatisfactory, smiley faces, letters, or never/sometimes/always.
Create a spreadsheet or drawn-out table. On the left side of the table, write your criterion one by one vertically. On the top of the table, write your performance levels horizontally.
You may choose to explain each performance level in detail with descriptors (i.e. describing what "1" means in organization, then "2", and so on), or you can leave it simple.
Assign a point value to each criterion. You may assign the same point value all the way down, or choose some objectives you feel may have more value.
Review your rubric to make sure it includes all of the objectives you would like to assess. Share this rubric with your students before they begin their project.
Create a spreadsheet or drawn-out table. On the left side of the table, write your performance levels vertically. To the left, use your criteria to describe each performance level. Holistic rubric groups the criteria together as a whole (i.e. to earn a 1, students must be very well organized, finish their work on time and present high-quality work).
Assign a point value to your performance levels.
Review your rubric to make sure it includes all of the objectives you would like to assess. Share this rubric with your students before they begin their project.