You have been contacted by the Solar System Real Estate Company to sell planet real estate. There has recently been a huge invasion of alien families moving into our solar system and Earth has too many people! You and a partner are going to hit the information highway and research a planet. You will craft and design a real estate project that highlights the best features of your planet. Why would the aliens want to move to your planet?
Why is your planet so special?
Task
You and your partners are relators who are selling a planet in our solar system! You need to convince the incoming alien populations to move to YOUR planet.
Process
You and your partner will explore the following websites to make your choice of what planet you would like to advertise (remember! not Pluto). At this point you will also need to decide which creative way you will choose to sell your planet to the aliens!
What planet should you sell?
Websites about all eight planets:
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
http://kids.nineplanets.org/general2.htm
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html
Planet Project Research Notes
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Why is your planet so special?
Task
You and your partners are relators who are selling a planet in our solar system! You need to convince the incoming alien populations to move to YOUR planet.
- You and your partners will explore the internet and choose a planet to sell. From there, you should gather and record all of the fun and interesting things about your planet.
- Then, you will put the information together in an interesting, creative, and accurate way before giving a sales pitch to the aliens! You can choose from the following formats for presenting your planet; a poster, a brochure or two post cards.
- Finally, you and your partner will present your planet to the aliens in an oral presenation.
- Poster: Use a poster board or a tag board. It should include cool facts, size, temperature, revolutions, distance from the sun, neighboring planets, moons, composition, a list of many reasons why someone should buy your planet. Remember to include pictures!
- Brochure: Templates for a brochure can be found on your iPad! Your brochure should include cool facts, size, temperature, revolutions, distance from the sun, neighboring planets, moons, composition, a list of many reasons why someone should buy your planet. Remember to include pictures!
- iMovie: You will use the iMovie app. One picture should include a far away picture of your planet and the other should include an close up picture of your planet. It should include cool facts, size, temperature, revolutions, distance from the sun, neighboring planets, moons, composition, a list of many reasons why someone should buy your planet.
Process
You and your partner will explore the following websites to make your choice of what planet you would like to advertise (remember! not Pluto). At this point you will also need to decide which creative way you will choose to sell your planet to the aliens!
What planet should you sell?
- Please click here to look at some neat information about the planets!
- This website also gives you good information to help you choose your planet!
Websites about all eight planets:
http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
http://kids.nineplanets.org/general2.htm
http://www.apples4theteacher.com/starwarp2.html
Planet Project Research Notes
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