Lexington JHS

Science 8 HP
Friday, Oct 28, 2011

 

Planetary Travel Brochure
You are an astronomer and have been hired by the “To Infinity and Beyond Travel Company”. Your assignment is to develop a brochure for the company telling tourists about our Solar System-The Milky Way. The brochure will include 8 planets in our solar system. You need to use COMPLETE sentences to describe the planets.  You may write the information in a narrative in paragraph format or use bullet points. For extra credit you can include 3 activities for vacationers available on each planet. 
Requirements: This should be a 10 panel brochure.
 **Include Rubric on back panel**
  • Distance from the Sun
  • Surface Temperature(range)
  • Diameter
  • Gravity
  • Atmospheric conditions
  • Length of a Day
  • Length of a Year
  • How many moons it has and names (if possible)
  • Picture(s)
  • 3 special features of each planet (what makes this planet unique)
   Grading Rubric
Name________________ Per.___

 

Title page (picture)
5 points
Mercury 12 characteristics
6 points
Venus 12 characteristics
6 points
Earth 12 characteristics
6 points
Mars 12 characteristics
6 points
Jupiter 12 characteristics
6 points
Saturn 12 characteristics
6 points
Uranus 12 characteristics
6 points
Neptune 12 characteristics
6 points
Layout & neatness
7
EC- 3 activities per planet
10 points

 

60 points possible               pts____
 
If you are using publisher: make two 6 panel brochures. On the 1st brochure leave the right panel of page 2 blank. On the 2nd brochure, leave the right panel on page one blank. These 2 blank pages can be glued together to make one brochure.
 



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