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Planet Project

You will be working on some brief descriptions of the 8 planets and Pluto (poor Pluto). You’ll be teaching the class about your planet and all of the following questions are fair game for tests so you should come back to wikispaces and do some studying before the test.

Remember your presentation skills. · You should be making eye contact with your audience · You should know your material and not have to read from the screen · Volume and poise; can people hear you, do you use a lot of filler words like um and uh? · Everyone must participate in your group presentation. Information that must be on your wikipage **(WITH CITED SOURCES!!!)** includes;

· Size (usually given in diameter) and relative size compared to Earth · Distance from Sun in Astronomical Units · Order from the Sun (is it first, 5th, 7th ?) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Day length <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Orbit time <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Atmosphere composition (what gases and what %s do they make in the atmosphere) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Day time Temperature/ Night Temperature <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Surface Description <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Moons? If so names and any facts about them. <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">How has the planet been studied? (Any Human missions, satellites, or major observations made) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Include at least two pictures (planet, moons, major features….lots of options here) <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt;">Include two other interesting facts about the planet, perhaps major feature we can see, or can we see it in our sky and where Each of these factors is worth 2 points for a total of 24 points Plus 6 points for presentation (including biblio and internally cited sources) Total /30 points You can use lots of different sources, there are a ton of sites on the web. Plus you can use your books or other hard text sources. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">You will present your information off your wiki site.

Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto If you do pluto tell us why its not a planet!