Description
Design Your Own Planet Creative & Persuasive Writing PBL Project: Take your students’ imagination to the next level with this engaging Design Your Own Planet Project-Based Learning (PBL) activity! In this creative and purposeful project, students will design their own unique planet and use persuasive writing skills to convince others to visit their world.
Students will explore space concepts while planning, designing, and presenting their ideas in a structured and meaningful way. From naming their planet to describing its environment, lifeforms, and features, students will build strong writing, creativity, and critical thinking skills while making real-world connections.
Watching students bring their planets to life and present their persuasive campaigns is both exciting and rewarding!
INCLUDED:
- Print and digital format included
- Student Goal: Your ultimate task is to persuade people to want to come visit your planet. Your final task will be to create an advertisement flipbook and a persuasive writing activity.
- Clickable Table of Contents
- Student checklist pages
Planning Pages:
- planet name and appearance
- planet location in space
- planet key information (size, weight, colors)
- planet facts and info
- planet’s weather, landforms, natural resources
- planet’s surface
- a day in the life of the planet
- special facts
Writing Activities/ Persuasive Writing Activity:
- persuasive advertisement
- persuasive writing planning and writing
- all about my planet writing
Final Project Activities and Display:
- Advertisement flipbook
- All about my Planet Teach-go pennant
PERFECT FOR:
- classroom literacy writing groups
- early finisher projects
- homework writing assignments
- collaborative writing
- extensions for GT, or accelerated learners
- substitute activities
- and much more!
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Erin K. –
Great for ESY writing!
Miss Berard –
This product was great to help guide the students and keep them organized with their planet information and also the persuasive aspect of the task. My students really enjoyed it!
Courtney B. –
Fun activity, thanks!
Learning is Fun in K-2 –
I am using this with my high ability first graders. May need to edit/ pick and choose the pages to use but I love the concept so I will make it work!
Fabulous Fourthies –
My class loved this! We did the packet and then I let the kids use styrofoam balls to create their planet in 3D.
Tracey S. –
My kids loved this, I will definitely use it again in the future!
Miss Ellen’s ELL –
We all really enjoyed using this!
AMY E. –
My students had a lot of fun creating their own planets. With the right questioning, they really had to think it through at a higher level 🙂
Breit Boutique –
love
Chelsea R. –
Another great product from this shop!
Tammy Savva –
Kids had a lot of fun.
Nava Fausone –
This was a great project we used to start the year, before jumping into our first unit of science – space!
Jamie Hallowell –
A great resource to expand learning!
stephanie T. –
Amazing resource! We used this as an apart of our persuasive writing. Students had to design a planet and then convince myself and their parents to take their next family vacation there.
A Dash of Sprinkles and Sass –
I bought this for my students to do when I needed a sub. They had a blast and were still practicing important skills!
Rayni Day Resources –
This was a prefect print and go activity. I loved using this as an assessment. Great and easy resource!
Carly H. –
My students absolutely love the Solar System! They are so interested and engaged every year! Thank you for this resource!
Marah B. –
My students love the freedom they are given during PBL! Great fun!
Creations by N –
My students loved designing their own planet and describing all of its characteristics.
Vanessa B. –
Fun resource for kids.