1. Complete a project contract (or save it until the end and use it as a reflection tool).
2. Fold a blank 8 x 11 paper in half three times so there are 8 rectangles (and hence room for 16 categories, 8 on each side)
3. Label the rectangles with whichever categories you want to explore first. Here is mine:
4. Complete the chart, listing elements under each of the 16 (or however many) categories
THIRD-GRADER DECLAN'S SPREADSHEET OF EVERYTHING:
THIRD-GRADER ROWAN'S SPREADSHEET OF "CREATURE STATS":
5. Answer any process questions that come your way, for example:
THIRD-GRADER DECLAN'S ANSWERS TO THE PROCESS QUESTIONS:
KINDERGARTNER SIMON'S ANSWERS TO THE PROCESS QUESTIONS:
Is there money? What does it look like? Is it virtual or tangible?
No money, share with everyone, machines clean your house, fix roads and pick up garbage.
How do inhabitants get rich? Or do they have an equal amount of money?
Nobody has money.
What will the life expectancy be?
Infinite years. (Simon said everyone would have 5-10 babies and is still thinking about where all the people will fit if they have 5-10 babies and life for infinity.)
Will there be pollution?
After a discussion on what pollution is, Simon decided his planet definitely does not have pollution.
How long will your planet last?
Infinity, but there is another layer if your plants die there are more plants if you dig to the next layer.
6. Draw, design and/or build as many of the various elements that your creativity will allow. Draw landscapes, cityscapes, maps, towns, vehicles, schools, and creatures. Construct villages (to scale), buildings, vehicles, money, creatures and costumes. Make a 3-D prototype of the planet along with its rings (like Saturn, if it has), moons (if it has), and stars. Here is some info on actual planets, as inspiration.
KINDERGARTNER SIMON'S RENDERINGS:
SIMON'S PROCESS AS DESCRIBED BY SIMON'S MOM:
"Here are some photos of Simon's flying bicycle. He really enjoyed the conversation today and was especially excited about the idea of a bubble bike and creating a planet that could bounce or float.
He also went a little further in his idea of an infinite life expectancy. He asked me one morning why people did not have life cycles like the immortal jellyfish. Evidently, courtesy of a Wild Kratz episode that aired this week, he learned that these jellyfish repeat their life cycle and can biologically life forever if they are not eaten. He has now decided that animals and people have this life cycle on his planet. However, dragons grow until they are 18 and then get small again, the egg appears around them and they stay in it for 1 year. I have a video of this explanation, but it's a pretty large file."
SIMON'S SOP-MOTION VIDEO OF HIS FLYING BICYCLE (WITH GREEN SCREEN):
SIMON'S STOP-MOTION DEPICTION OF A HUMAN TRAINING A SNOW WRAITH DRAGON:
ON ANOTHER CONTINENT CALLED "DINO ISLAND," A DINOSAUR ALTERCATION:
SIMON'S STOP MOTION DEPICTION OF A SLITHER WING (WITH STRATEGIC USE OF FOREGROUND IMAGE) :
SIMON'S 3-D PROTOTYPE:
7. Create a language for your planet's inhabitants and craft a conversation that is either depicted as a graphic story or comic book, OR make a video, where you and another person have a conversation in your made-up language.
SAMPLE GRAPHIC STORY/SCENE:
DECLAN'S GRAPHIC STORY IN ENGLISH (BEFORE TRANSLATION TO UTOPIAN L):
8. Design a travel brochure that highlights your planet's most inviting attributes.
SAMPLE TRAVEL BROCHURE:
IN LIEU OF A BROCHURE, DECLAN MADE A COMMERCIAL FOR HIS PLANET "UTOPIA":
9 Write about your planet in one or more of the following ways:
- Narrative story about how your planet originated (origin story)
- Newspaper article (or entire first page) from one of your planet's biggest towns or cities
- Song by one of your planet's most famous singers (if your planet has music)
- Sheet music, where you notate one of your planet's most famous songs (or perhaps one of its country's national anthem)
- Collection of poetry in two languages, one English and the other a language from your planet
- Speech by your planet's leader (written and/or recorded)
- Other forms of writing that you divine and that showcase your writing and creativity
DECLAN'S SONG LYRIC
UTOPIA
An AMAZING PLACE
It's way out there
Deep in space
UTOPIA
Where hover cars fly
Rodan is there
Protecting the sky
We don't roll on the ground
We fly in the air
If monsters attack
We don't care
Cuz our monsters
Are always there
UTOPIA
An AMAZING PLACE
It's way out there
Deep in space
UTOPIA
Where hover cars fly
Rodan is there
Protecting the sky
SAMPLE GRADING RUBRIC:
When we grade students, our goal is to inspire future innovation, not squash souls.
If you love your work, we surely will too!
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