Inventive Minds: Empowering Solutions for All! — Inkwire

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Competency Progression Rubric Competency-first rubric

Category	Learning Goal	Stage 1	Stage 2	Stage 3	Stage 4
Deeper Learning Competencies	Collaboration	I can work with my classmates to brainstorm and ask helpful questions about making tools that help others I can draw simple pictures of our ideas to show how they work Whenever we test different objects, I look for what works well and what we can make better.	I can work with a partner to ask questions and gather information about a problem faced by people with disabilities Together, we create a simple drawing or model of a tool that might help solve the problem We test different ideas and talk about what works well and what doesn't to improve our design.	I can work with my teammates to brainstorm and share ideas, making sure everyone feels included When creating our invention, I help draw sketches and models that show how it works and why it's helpful I test different materials to find the best ones, telling my group why one material might be better than another for what we need.	I can work together with my classmates to create sketches and models of our inventions, helping everyone share ideas and choose the best materials and designs I listen carefully to my teammates and make sure everyone's voice is heard, so that we can make a tool that helps people in real ways.
Deeper Learning Competencies	Effective Communication	I can ask thoughtful questions and gather important information from my partner to understand how we can make new tools to help people with disabilities I can share what I've learned with my team in a way that we all understand, using simple drawings and descriptions to show how our ideas work.	I can share what I learned about designing helpful tools for people with disabilities by explaining how my sketches or models solve problems I can tell my friends what materials I used and why they work well I can listen to their ideas and questions to improve my project.	I can effectively communicate with my peers and learning partners, listen to understand their diverse perspectives, and share observations and questions about the challenges faced by our clients I demonstrate my understanding through thoughtful sketches or models that illustrate how our ideas can remove barriers, and I can clearly explain the strengths and weaknesses of different designs based on the data we collect.	I can clearly explain how my invention helps our clients by describing the design features and their benefits, using feedback from real tests to show how my ideas solve problems in new and helpful ways.
Deeper Learning Competencies	Critical Thinking & Problem Solving	I can ask thoughtful questions to better understand the needs of our clients, use my observations to identify a simple problem that can be solved, and choose different materials to create a basic model that helps show how my design can make tasks easier for people with disabilities.	I can identify real-world problems and describe how different designs might help I can make simple drawings or models to show how my design will work and use information or feedback to decide how well it solves the problem.	I can design a simple drawing or model that shows how my invention solves a problem for people with disabilities, using helpful shapes and materials I collect information and ask questions to understand what needs changing, and I test my idea by comparing it to others, checking how well it works for real people and sharing what I've learned.	I can cleverly use what I observed and learned to create a new tool that solves a real problem for people with disabilities I make cool drawings or models of my idea, explaining how it works and why it’s helpful I carefully test my idea, learn from how it works, and make it even better so it helps as much as possible.