The planets

A collection of science books, made in Book Creator.

Science books

Our Solar System - Google Arts & Culture

The solar system: out of this world with science activities for kids

Unlocking the secrets of the solar system

1) Open Google Classroom 2) Open the assignment called: “To scale, the solar system” 3) Open the attachment in Google Sheets

The Scale of the Solar System

Make a copy of me... use formulas to calcualte the answers.

Excel formulas

When complete, you will be web embedding this information in this book, on this page.

Why couldn’t you visit the planet from the previous page? (3 reasons learnt from either the videos or websites)

Answer as a video, voice recording or text...

Neptune

All About Neptune | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Write down 3 facts or pieces of information learnt from either the video or the website. 

The Earth takes 24 hours to do one rotation on its axis... This is called a day... The other planets rotate at different speeds compared to Earth. How long is one day on the other planets (in hours)?

Mercury = Venus = Mars = Jupiter = Saturn = Uranus = Neptune =

Mercury

All About Mercury | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Venus

All About Venus | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

The Earth takes 365 1\4 days to do one orbit of the Sun... This is called a year... Due to their distance away from the sun, the other planets have different orbital lengths. How long is one year on the other planets (in earth days)?

Mercury = Venus = Mars = Jupiter = Saturn = Uranus = Neptune =

Different orbiting speeds

Answer these questions with a “T” or a “f”... don’t guess... the answers are all somewhere in this book!

A day on Mercury is longer than its year.

Planets that are closer to the sun take longer to orbit it.

Because it is the closest planet to the sun, Mercury is also the hottest.

Venus &amp; Uranus are the only other planets that rotate in the same direction as Earth.

A day on Venus is longer than a Venus year.

Uranus is the only planet to rotate on its side.

The storms on Uranus produce winds so fast they break the sound barrier! (They get up to 1900 km/h!!!)

Mars

The Mars Rover

All About Mars | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Be amazed!

Earth

Orbit around Earth

All About Earth | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

The scale of the solar system

Uranus

All About Uranus | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Jupiter 

Jupiter 2

All About Jupiter | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

How long is a day?

Watch this video and make changes to your answers on the previous page...

To scale the solar system

Watch this video to see how these guys built a scale model of our Solar System out in the desert... 

We are going to do the same experiment, except our scale model will use 1 : 24 340 000 000 Twenty four billion three hundred and forty million!

The scale they used was 1 : 850 000 000 Eight hundred and fifty million!

Question: How big do you think the Sun will be in our experiment?

Planetary Fact Sheet

Using the same Google Sheet from the previous page, create a graph that shows the difference between the length of days on the different planets.  Save the graph and add it to this page.

Creating a graph

Which planet would you like to visit if you could and why? (3 reasons)

Saturn

Saturn 2

Saturn 3

All About Saturn | NASA Space Place – NASA Science for Kids

Name

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