Planetary project webquest John Pierce Grades 3 5

Planetary project webquest John Pierce Grades 3 -5 EDU 505

Your mission!!! (Purpose) § You and your team are on a mission to explore the Solar System! § While you are exploring, you and your team must report back to mission control about one of the planets.

EXPLORING your planet (task) § Each team will be assigned a planet to explore. – Each team will randomly draw a planet to explore out of a hat! § Each team will be writing a report about your planet, as well as creating a project about your planet. Your report and project will be presented to the class. § Your team’s mission is to find facts about your assigned planet, using websites and other materials available to you to collect these facts.

Report to mission control (task continued) § Each team will be creating a report on their planet to present to the class. § With this report, each team will have to create a project that shows us facts about your assigned planet.

Exploring your planet (online resources) § These are the websites to use for exploring your planet: – – http: //www. kidsastronomy. com/ http: //solarsystem. nasa. gov/planets/index. cfm http: //www. frontiernet. net/~kidpower/planets. html http: //www. windows. ucar. edu/

your Planetary project § Each team must create a written report about their planet. – The report should be at least one full page long. – The report should have all of the key facts about your planet. – The report should be written by all of the teammates, and must have all of the teammates’ names on it.

Your planetary project (continued) § You and your team must decide together on what type of project you would like to do. § Project ideas: – – – – Create a poster Create A diorama Create A model of your planet Write A song Create A Power. Point presentation Create a video about exploring your planet OR A PROJECT OF YOUR CHOOSING! ALL PROJECTS MUST BE APPROVED BY MR. PIERCE BEFORE YOU START THEM !

Mission control evaluation (assessment) § Your planetary projects will be graded by looking at these things: – CONTENT § FACTS PRESENTED § ACCURACY – WRITTEN REPORT § WRITING RULES § WRITTEN CONTENT – PLANETARY PROJECT § § DEVELOPMENT APPEARANCE CREATIVITY ACCURACY – PLANETARY PROJECT PRESENTATION TO THE CLASS § § § PUBLIC SPEAKING PARTICIPATI 0 N BY THE GROUP CLARITY

CONCLUSION § THROUGH THE RESEARCH PROCESS, WRITING REPORTS, CREATING PROJECTS, AND PRESENTING THEM TO THE CLASS, OUR GOAL WAS TO LEARN ABOUT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM AND THE NINE PLANETS. § THE RESEARCH, REPORTS, PROJECTS, AND PRESENTATIONS ALSO DEMONSTRATED HOW RESEARCH OCCURS, AND HOW IT IS USED TO DEVELOP REPORTS AND PROJECTS.