Student+Assignments

= Student Assignments =

For the next two days we are going to be learning about our Solar System! Listed below are the exact activities we are going to be doing on Thursday, April 19th and Friday, April 20th.

**Thursday:**
We are going to be starting to work on our group projects about the planets. You will all be assigned to groups of about 3, and everyone must put in an even amount of work in order to get full credit.

Once we get to the computer lab, sit in your groups and begin to look up facts about your assigned planet. Try not to use websites like Wikipedia where the information is not as reliable. Here is a list of trusted websites: [|National Geographic] [|NASA] [|Nine Planets]

Each person has to find at least 8 interesting facts about their assigned planet, and they have to be different than the other members of your group, so work as a team when you are doing your research.

After each member of the group gets all of their facts, your group can start to make their Prezi presentation. It is easy software to use, and it walks you step-by-step, just in case you are not familiar with it. These presentations will be shown to the other students tomorrow so do your best to make it creative! Prezi website: []

**Friday:**
Today, you will be getting back into your groups to see all of the different presentations. I have already opened up each of the different presentations on the iPads, so go to the station in which the presentation you made is on the screen.

We will go around in a rotation, and you will all be able to see each presentation. Take little notes about facts that you found interesting about each planet, you are going to need these when you write your report after we are finished presenting.

After each of the groups have made it to all 9 iPad stations and watched all of the presentations, everyone has to write a one-page typed report using Word. You can choose to either write a summary of all of the information you learned using your notes, or you can choose to write about one planet that stuck out to you. Since everyone will be using Word to write their paper, I am going to be a lot more strict about spelling and grammar, so use spell check and grammar check before printing it to turn it in.

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