2015 term 2 week 5: The lumpy potatoes in space.

This is my word cloud about Mars.
I hope you enjoy it 

In Week 5 of Term 2 our class focussed on how to write great information reports.

We wrote about the planet Mars as we are in the middle of learning about Planet Earth and Beyond. Learning how to write a geat information report will help us with our self-guided topics in a few weeks time.

Here is my writing, after I have self-assessed and peer-assessed my work.

Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos. They are shaped like lumpy potatoes. Mars’ moons are very cold and Mars is the only planet that has two moons. When Mars orbits the Sun, the moons go around the Sun too. They are much smaller than Earth’s moon. Phobos is 22.2 kilometers and 13.8 metres wide while Deimos is just 12.6 kilometers and 7.8 meters wide. Now I have learned that Mars has two moons. If you want to know where I got this information from you can go on this link.

My Information Report Success Criteria:	Self	Peer
My heading:
is an interesting title (I might have phrased the title as a question.)
My opening paragraph:
says what my report is about in a clear way
gives a general “classification” – and maybe a technical classification
outlines the main features of the subject
My main paragraphs:
have sub-headings where helpful
have clear topic sentences  (topic and main point)
are organised so that each paragraph is about a different aspect of the subject
give detailed information (factual descriptions)
include specific, technical vocabulary
are generally balanced (have a similar amount of detail about the different aspects I write about)