Muscular System Travel Brochure

You are an employee at the Deltoid Dynamics Travel Agency and have been asked to be a consultant to design a luxury tour through the Muscular System. Before you can collect your fee from the Anatomy Travel Bureau, you must produce a brochure. The owner of the travel bureau, Mrs. Gertrude Gastrocnemius, has informed you that in order to win the contract you must highlight the trendy spots and exciting activities of the area. For insurance considerations, you must also discreetly mention any possible dangers or special precautions that tourists might encounter in visiting this system. Your muscular system tour should include visits to muscles in all areas of the body.

Format

  • Brochure – 6 sections.
  • The main goal is to give an overall sense of the organization and function of the muscular system. You may use drawings, computer graphics, and photographs of actual organs, pictures from magazines, journals, or books to help in your advertisement of each system. Whenever possible, type all written parts of brochure. Let your imagination run WILD!
  • Each person will orally present his or her brochure to the class, and we will vote on which person gets the contract.

Suggestions for the different sections in your brochure:

Remember to highlight the trendy spots and exciting activities of the area, but also mention any possible dangers or special precautions that tourists might encounter in visiting this system.

  1. Give examples of where the three different types of muscles (skeletal, smooth and cardiac) would be found in the body, and describe what each one looks like.
  2. Explain how a muscle contracts and relaxes.
  3. Explain how muscles fatigue (get tired).
  4. Explain muscle coordination and flexibility.
  5. Explain how muscles, bones, and tendons are related.
  6. Identify 10 major muscles of the body.

Assessment:

CATEGORY / 4 Points / 3 Points / 2 Points / 1 Point
Spelling & Proofreading / No spelling errors remain after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure. / No more than 1 spelling error remains after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure. / No more than 3 spelling errors remain after one person other than the typist reads and corrects the brochure. / Several spelling errors in the brochure.
Content - Accuracy / All facts in the brochure are accurate. / 99-90% of the facts in the brochure are accurate. / 89-80% of the facts in the brochure are accurate. / Fewer than 80% of the facts in the brochure are accurate.
Attractiveness & Organization / The brochure has exceptionally attractive formatting and well-organized information. / The brochure has attractive formatting and well-organized information. / The brochure has well-organized information. / The brochure's formatting and organization of material are confusing to the reader.
Graphics/Pictures / Graphics go well with the text and there is a good mix of text and graphics. / Graphics go well with the text, but there are so many that they distract from the text. / Graphics go well with the text, but there are too few and the brochure seems "text-heavy". / Graphics do not go with the accompanying text or appear to be randomly chosen.
Knowledge Gained / During the presentation, all students in the group can accurately answer all questions related to facts in the brochure. / During the presentation, all students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure. / During the presentation, most students in the group can accurately answer most questions related to facts in the brochure. / During the presentation, several students in the group appear to have little knowledge about the facts used in the brochure.

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