For this activity, you will be creating a board game. The object of the game is to make it from Earth to Saturn in order to complete your study of the gas giant. However, on your journey to Saturn, there are comets, asteroids, and meteoroids that could knock your spacecraft off your planned path, making it much more difficult to complete your journey. Don’t worry though! Mars and Jupiter are checkpoints, so once you make it to one of those, you can always return there for repairs to your spacecraft. In order to avoid the comets, asteroids, and meteoroids, you must correctly answer questions about comets, meteors, asteroids, meteoroids, and meteorites. Materials Needed: 25 Notecards Poster board Colorful markers 3 Small balls of different-colored play dough that will act as your game pieces 15 Toothpicks Game Rules: Object of the game: Complete your journey from Earth to Saturn before your opponent, and without your spacecraft getting destroyed! Correct answers: If you answer correctly, you avoid being hit and are able to move forward one space. Incorrect answers: If you answer incorrectly, your spacecraft is hit, and you will be forced to move back one space. Keep track of incorrect answers and hits by putting one toothpick in your game piece each time you answer a question incorrectly; collect five and you lose the game! Checkpoints: Mars and Jupiter are checkpoints. If you make it to these planets, you may not be forced to move back beyond that planet. (ex.: If you are on Mars and answer incorrectly, you stay on Mars. You do not move back one space.) Winning the game: You win if you are the first person to make it to Saturn. You can lose, though, automatically if your spacecraft is hit five times by an object (when you answer five questions incorrectly). If this happens, sit out and watch the rest of the game until someone wins. Step 1: Creating the Starting Point In order to create this game, you must have a board and spaces to play on. Use poster board and colorful markers for this step. Start by designing y