Scientific Writer:

• Create a booklet on the planets and asteroid belt.
• List at least five facts about  each planet and asteroid belt. .
• Create and alien. Give your alien a name.
• Which planet will it live on?  What physical and behavioral adaptations will it have to survive.

Resources:
 

  General information on the solar system.
  http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htmv
  http://amazing-space.stsci.edu/
  http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
     http://www.solarviews.com/eng/homepage.htm
 

  Choose a Brainpop movie and quiz on the following topics:
           Saturn, Jupiter, Mars.
  http://brainpop.com/science
 

      These sites have lots of information and pictures about the universe.

• http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/solar_system.html&edu=elem
• http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/
• http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/lib/aptree.html
• Go here to create your alien.
• http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/cool_stuff/alien/make_alien.html

• Fun Space Activities.
• http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/spacepl.htm