Project requirements

• Title Slide
• Background information - Answer Who? What? Where? When? Why?
• Discuss/describe important personalities - astronauts, discoverers, gods, goddesses, scientists, etc.
• Give details of mission, planet, important myths, or biography
• Describe any important events leading up to a mission or discovery
• Timeline of relevant dates and events associated with topic--mission, personality, myth, or planet
• Add graphics and other multimedia as appropriate
• Works Cited page of research sources in MLA format
• Microsoft Word document of research material, including rewritten material copied to the PowerPoint.

Review of possible topics or research

• A mission of the American, Russian, or another country’s space program
• The development of space flight (including the origins of the airplane)
• A planet or other astronomical body or phenomena
• Astronomy centered on constellations
• Mythology of constellations
• Astronomy of ancient cultures
• Famous astronomers, ancient and modern
• Development of the study of space
• Development of science fiction literature, works, and authors
• Science fiction topics that have become fact

*Be sure to narrow your topic appropriately to one mission, element, or area of study. Avoid researching subjects that may be too general, like the Space Program or the Planets--keep the topic manageable.