A WebQuest for 6th Grade Science

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Soaring Through the Solar System

• A WebQuest for 6th Grade Science
• Designed by Amanda Carmean
  Amanda.carmean_at_nn.k12.va.us

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Stop 1 Introduction

• You have been hired by a multimillion dollar
  childrens book publishing company. They have
  read your previous childrens books and love your
  style. Your objective is to create a book geared
  towards 3rd graders that can be fiction, but
  needs to have facts about the eight planets. The
  publishers want the story line to be creative to
  entice the readers to enjoy the book as well as
  learn details about the solar system. Your
  mission, if you chose to accept it will be to
  take the readers on a tour so they may be able to
  investigate the organization of the solar system
  and the relationships among the various bodies
  that comprise it. Some key concepts within the
  book should include the sun, our moon, Earth, and
  the other seen planets and their moons.

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Stop 2- The Task

• Guidelines
• Attractive to and on the reading/interest level
  of young children ages 7-8.
• Number of pages 11-13
• Content to cover all 8 planets plus Pluto and
  the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
• Text and illustration on each numbered page
• Information per page must include name of
  planet and nickname, order /position from the
  sun, whether it is an inner or outer planet,
  length of day, at least 2 interesting facts,
  and simple description.
• An attractive front and back cover

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Stop 3- The Process

• You will need to find research that will help you
  write the childrens book. Use
• the chart on the following page to help you
  organize your notes as you find more
• information on the worldwide web.
• Visit the following websites to fill in the data
  on the chart
• http//www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?
  id23externalhttp//www.nineplanets.org/origina
  lhttp//www.proteacher.com/110066.shtmltitleThe
  20Nine20Planets
• www.brainpop.com
• Watch the video clips on each individual planet
  and on the asteroid belt. This will give you a
  lot of interesting facts and it will tell you
  about the moons for each planet.
• http//www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/tour/tour
  .htm?space
• http//www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link/our_solar_s
  ystem/solar_system.html
• Once you have filled in the chart with all the
  information gathered you may now organize
  yourself to create your childrens book. First
  you need to think of a theme.
• Now that you have a theme write the introduction
  page.
• Write your second page which should include
  visiting the first planet which is Mercury. Be
  sure to give all the data you had recorded from
  your research.
• Write your third page on the second planet,
  Venus. Be sure to give all the data you had
  recorded from your research.
• Continue to write about the adventures through
  outer space using one page per planet. Do not
  forget to add the asteroid belt between Mars and
  Jupiter. This should also get its own page.
• Now that you have written about your journey
  through all eight planets, Pluto, and the
  asteroid belt you can wrap up your adventures on
  your last page.
• Create a glossary for young children to use to
  help them with tough words.
• Edit your rough draft.
• Write your final copy including colored
  illustrations.
• Decorate your front and back cover, just as you
  would see on a picture book.

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Chart
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Stop 4- Evaluation The book will be judges
worthy of publishing by editors and publishers in
the company using the following rubric
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Stop 5- Conclusion

• Your final product, the childrens book, should
  be an entertaining informative narrative that
  young children can enjoy. Once the publisher
  (teacher) has looked over the childrens books
  then they will decide if the book is ready to go
  on the shelves for young children to enjoy. If
  the book is free of errors then the books will go
  to the library of the neighboring elementary
  school for the young children to enjoy.

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Stop 6- Credits and References

• http//images.google.com/images?hlenqsolarsyst
  embtnGSearchImagesgbv2
• http//www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/books/cla
  ssics/solarsystem.htm
• http//images.google.com/images?hlenqschoolhous
  ebtnGGoogleSearchieUTF-8oeUTF-8um1saNt
  abwi
• http//images.google.com/images?svnum10hlengbv
  2qgrading
• www.brainpop.com
• http//www.proteacher.com/cgi-bin/outsidesite.cgi?
  id23externalhttp//www.nineplanets.org/origina
  lhttp//www.proteacher.com/110066.shtmltitleThe
  20Nine20Planets
• http//www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/tour/tour
  .htm?space