by Anna Schneider, The Pierce School
You will be exploring the Internet Universe to gather information about your planet and complete the Planet Exploration Guide. Along the way you will learn some helpful research skills such as website evaluation and the what, why, and how of creating a bibliography. At the end of your journey, you will be using some of the information you found on your quest to place your planet in the correct position on a class map of the solar system.
Introduction
Earthlings have been interested in exploring their universe for quite some time! We've built telescopes and spaceships to find out more about our neighboring planets in the Milky Way, along the way, scientists have made some discoveries that have proved very useful to us earthlings in our everyday lives. What will you discover on your own exploration of the Universe?
You will be using the Internet for your space travels, just as astronauts must prepare for a mission to Mars, you must prepare for your quest through the Internet by learning some useful skills.
