Planetary Travel Brochure • Assignments

Date Assigned: Tuesday, Oct 30, 2012

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

60 points possible pts____

If you are using Publisher: make two 3 panel brochures. On the 1^st brochure leave the right panel of page 2 blank. On the 2^nd brochure, leave the right panel on page one blank. These 2 blank pages can be glued together to make one brochure.

http://bobthealien.co.uk/

http://pds.nasa.gov/planets/welcome.

http://kidsastronomy.com/neptune.htm

http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/samoset/psgk3ex.htm

http://www.factmonster.com/science/astronomy/planet-saturn.html

http://library.thinkquest.org/3645/page2.html

http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~acarpi/NSC/9-space.htm

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