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