Year 4 Animal Life Cycles and Their Habitat

Stop Motion Film Assessment

Due date: ____/____/_____

Curriculum Links:
- Living things have life cycles (ACSSU072)
- Living things depend on each other and the environment to survive (ACSSU073)

Year 4 Animal life cycles and Their Habitat – Stop Motion Film Assessment

Student Names: ______________________________________________________

Animal: ____________________________ Impact: ________________________________

Unsatisfactory Satisfactory Above Satisfactory

Life Cycle sequencing and
accuracy of stage
descriptions
Stages of life cycle are not
presented in sequential
order and stage
descriptions are inaccurate
Student presented 2-3 of Student presented all
the stages of animal life stages of animal life cycle in
cycle in sequential order. sequential order and all
Half of the stage descriptions of each stage
descriptions accurate. accurate.

Human or environmental No human or Student provided a brief Student explicitly shows

factor actively shown in
video, and the impact on
animal life cycle described.
Stop Motion Animation
Comments:
environmental factor and accurate statement/
shown and no description sentence on how an
of impact the factor has on environmental or human
the animal life cycle factor impacted the animal
life cycle. Briefly shows
impact in action in video.
Animation is choppy. Animation is smooth and
Camera movement is a little there is very little
distracting. distracting camera
movement. Most frames
are in focus.
environmental or human
factor impacting animal in
video and provides detailed
sentences describing the
affect it has on the life cycle
Animation is very smooth
and the characters/objects
have fairly natural
movements. All frames are
in focus.