In space, no-one can here you learn

Date: 4th Nov 2021 @ 4:08pm

This term our science topic is , 'The Earth and Space'.

We will be learning about some of the amazing things that can be found in the universe, including planets, moons and asteroids.  In our first lesson, we worked together as a class to create a scale diagram of the planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.  

Using the actual sizes, we calculated how big we would have to make the planets to fit on our classroom ceilling - Jupiter has a diameter of 142,800 km (11.2 x bigger than Earth), so in our diagram, Jupiter had a diameter of 66cm.  We also used the same method to calculate how far apart the planets would be on our diagram, using their relative distance from the Sun - Earth is approximately 149,000,000 km (1 Astronomical Unit) away from the Sun, but on our diagram it is just 40 cm.  The pupils then used real photographs of the planets to paint or colour them in the correct colours.