Poster Evaluation:  Evaluator's name ___________________________   Poster maker's name ____________________________  Date ______________

1. Participate with your team members (1 pts each):

• Followed the group's common theme. Description: Meet with the members of your Team and decide on a single aspect of green design as the common Theme. No two groups will be allowed to select the same topic.
• Followed the group's common standards. Description:  Your group is to produce a set of posters (one per person) that have a similar appearance but different content. The similar appearance can be achieved with common standards such as font, background color, overall color scheme, and/or related titles. List the theme and the standards in a word document.
• Participated in perform ongoing peer evaluation. Description:  Meet with your group frequently to evaluate each other's posters and make sure that common standards are dev eloped and followed.

2. Topic (1 pt): Each person in a group will focus on one of the subjects: biology, chemistry, and physics and relate how it is applied to enable the aspect of green design chosen by your group as its theme. In the process describe the chosen green design aspect and explain why it should be important to the person viewing the poster. Some repetition of information will be needed on the posters your group creates but keep it to a minimum. It should be possible to show the posters as a group or separately.
3. Customer (3 pts): This will usually be one or more teachers but can be a club or organization

• Must keep notes in your log book on all customer interactions and peer evaluations. At minimum, you should have 2 customer interactions.

4. Content Rich Presentation (pts on item): The purpose of the poster is first to draw in the consumer from a distance, then to convey information that the consumer reads up close.

• 200+ words (5 pts)
• HSAP writing rubrics--must be completely free of spelling and grammar errors (10 pts)
• Tight writing (4 pts)
• Accurate facts (8 pts)
• Information must be fully referenced concerning its source (1 pt)
• Title readable from 30+ ft (1 pts)
• content readable from 3+ ft (1 pts)

5. One or more graphs ( 4 pts): must present at least some of the information as a graph produced in an  Excel Spread sheet. If a table is used it must contain formulas. All data must be fully referenced concerning its source
6. One or more graphic elements ( 2 pts total): must have at least one significant graphic element

• Scanned photograph
• Original drawing
• MUST use public domain graphics or student drawn graphics. DO NOT violate copyright laws. Sources of public domain pictures: PublicDomainPictures.net , Public-Domain-Photos.com, also many of the pictures on the Wikipedia are public domain
• NOT acceptable the cheesy low resolution clip art included with many applications

7. Aesthetic Design Elements (1 pts each): must be aesthetically pleasing

• Balance
• Color selection
• Composition
• NOT acceptable: solid backgrounds (other than white)

8. Impact (1 pts each): A good poster must have both an immediate and lasting impact on the consumer

• Hooks the consumer
• Engages the consumer
• Informs the consumer