The writing must provide a clear understanding of how plants provide things.
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Student's writing is off topic and does not demonstrate understanding that plants provide resources.
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Student's writing attempts to recognize that plants provide resources, but is unclear.
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Student's writing is mostly clear and demonstrates ideas that prove plants provide resources.
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Student's writing is very clear and gives specific examples of resources provided by plants.
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The writing must contain creative but logical circumstances that may be effected by the absence of a plant.
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The student's writing is not logical or creative and does not demonstrated circumstances based ont he absence of a plant.
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The student's writing attempts to present logical ideas in a creative way but does not fully show effects caused by the absence of a plant.
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The student's writing is mostly logical and often provides effects of the absence of a plant.
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The student's writing is always logical and clearly shows specific effects of the absence of a plant.
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Student must use correct capitalization, punctuation, and correct spelling of age appropriate words.
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The student's writing does not use any correct capitalization, punctuation, or spelling.
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The student's writing uses some correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling but still has many errors.
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The student's writing uses correct capitalization, punctuation, and spelling with few errors.
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The student's writing contains no errors in capitalization, punctuation, or spelling.
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