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Draw your Imaginary Planet's solar system with planets and other items labeled. Indicate the scale on your drawing. Draw the orbits to scale. The planets should not be to scale in this drawing. Use metric units for the scale and labeling distances.

Students create a political map for their country. Create a key that has a different way of showing how many people are in cities. For example, villages of 1 - 100 would have one size print or one color. Towns of 101 - 1000 would be another size print or another color. Cities of 1001 - 10,000 would be another size print or another color and so on. Draw in roads and highways.

Specific Expectation: Students will create a map of the migration of humans to their island. The map will show the longitude and latitude of the beginning of the migration, the route taken to the island, and the distance traveled. Information will include: year(s) of migration, number of people who migrated, reason for migration, and method of travel.

You will tell all about your star: give it a name, tell what type of star it is, its color, its diameter in kilometers, its surface temperature, its age, its life expectancy (how much longer it will live?), how it will die, when it will go through a major change. You can write this as if it is a biography and describe the birth of your star as well.

Students will read their second personal narrative to an audience of parents. Their goal is to read for 5 minutes.

The students wrote a narrative on a personal experience.

Maps will be graded based on these criteria.