Return ticket to Mars

Knowledge: List 5 fact that you learnt from the text.

1.  If you went to Venus the wind will crush you because it travels at nearly 400 Km an hour.

2. If you are on mars and you try to radio message people then it will take four minutes and twenty seconds to reach you!

3. If you’re on mars then you will have to drink sweat as water!!!

4.If you went to Venus you also won’t be able to breath so I would never want to go there.

5. Planet Mars is very very cold and even in summer.

Comprehension: Why do spacecraft go to Mars and not Venus? What are the problems with sending people to Mars?

They don’t go to Venus because it is very hard to breath. Infact you won’t be able to breath at all! The other reason is that the wind is super strong it can crush a human body!!! The problems with Mars is that people won’t be able to breath because there is only carbon dioxide which is what we breath out. The other problem is there is dust storms and they last for months!

Application: Choose four specialist words from the text and find their definition.

1. Processed:To perform a series of mechanical or chemical operations on (something) in order to change or preserve it.
2. Primitive:Relating to, denoting or, preserving the character of an early stage.
3. Sojourner: Means from old french sojourner Vulgar Latin subdiurnare (unattested) to spend a day from latin sub-during + late latin diurnum day.
4. Meteorites: A piece of rock or metal that has fallen to earth’s surface from out of space as a meteore.

Analysis: Would you like to go on a trip to Mars? Why or why not?

I would like to go to Mars because I want to see what it looks like in real life and so I can float. But if I go to Mars I would like my mum and friends to come and their parents.

Synthesis- New ideas: create a poster/infographic/google drawing about what you have read to put up in the classroom. Include information you have learnt from the text.

I did a drawing.