SEMESTER EXTRA CREDIT

You can complete as many of the following EXTRA CREDIT opportunities that you would like to make up for a missed assignment or to raise your grade on an assignment you already completed.

TOPICS

1. Rotation & Revolution
2. Seasons
3. Solstices & Equinoxes
4. Phases of the Moon
5. Eclipses
6. Tides

You must complete ALL of the following parts (Vocabulary, Summary, Diagram, Questions and Oral Defense) of as many TOPICS (Rotation/Revolution, Seasons, Solstice/Equinox, Phases of the Moon, Eclipses & tides) as you like.

You can put all of this information into any form that you like to present it to me; book, newspaper, paper, poster, blog entry, PowerPoint, video, etc...

For each of the following topics, you must complete the following:

1. Vocabulary: construct a chart including the word, your native language and definition of each related word in the topic
2. Summary: write a paragraph summarizing the main ideas of the topic; MUST include ALL of the vocabulary from the topic
3. Diagram(s): illustrate a detailed diagram(s) describing all of the vocabulary words from the topic, label the parts of the diagram(s)
4. Questions: create 10 quiz questions about this topic
5. **Oral Defense: defend your knowledge of the topic by answering a series of related questions on the topic and get teacher approval on the work

** YOU MUST UNDERSTAND THE TOPIC FOR CREDIT; No credit will be awarded if you do not PASS the Oral Defense**