Maximum Score - 5 Points

Point Criteria: Black dot and Green dot A

• 1 point for each reasonable description of movement or change in color.

  Acceptable descriptors:

  climbed up moved smudged touched the top color went up

  absorbed to the top spread out ran raised reached the top

  smeared moved upward got bigger blurred moved off the circle

Acceptable descriptors for color change:

changed color

list of colors formed

***No credit is given if the student only states the dot changed.***

1C & D. Observations of dots	2 points total

Standard: The student describes how the yellow dot changes.

Point Criteria: Yellow dot and Red dot

• 1 point for each reasonable description.
  - See acceptable descriptors for movement above.

  Acceptable descriptors for movement:

  fades no change in color

  gets lighter

  color thins out

***No credit is given if the student only states the dot changed or didn't change***

2. Reason why black dot acted the way it did	1 points total

Standard: The student explains why the black dot acted the way it did.

Point Criteria

• 1 point if the student explains that black is a mixture of many colors or water will separate them.

Acceptable answers:
• Black is a mixture (made up) of many colors.
• The black marker was washable (water soluble).
• All colors are part of black.
• Water separates the colors in black
• Water makes the colors in black run

*** No credit is given if the student only restates the observations made in question 1. ****

NYS Alternative Assessment in Science Project
NSF Grant #MDR-9154506
Copyright, April, 1996
The State University of New York
The State Education Department
Albany, New York 12234