Science - Year 5

Earth and Space – Block 5ES

Space Presenters

Session 2

Resource pack

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Suggested fruit for solar system model

Peppercorn - Mercury

Cherry tomato - Venus

Raspberry - Earth

Blueberry - Mars

Watermelon - Jupiter

Grapefruit - Saturn

Apple - Uranus

Lime - Neptune

Questions for building a scale model of the solar system

Scale and ratios (building a scale model of the solar system)

• What is a scale? What does it mean if we have a ratio?

• What is the greatest distance we will need to include in our model? (Sun-Neptune)

• What is the smallest distance we will need to include in our model? (Sun-Mercury)

• What is the greatest planet diameter we will need to include in our model? (Jupiter)

• What is the smallest planet diameter we will need to include in our model? (Mercury)

• What ratio could we use (distance: one piece of loo roll) to create a scaled model of thesolar system?

• What ratio could we use (actual diameter (km): fruit diameter (mm)) to create scaledplanets within our model solar system?

• If the distance from the Sun to the Earth is approximately 150 000 000km, how manypieces of loo roll will this be?

• Which fruit should we use for the Earth?

Online secondary sources of information: planets

http://nineplanets.org/tour/

http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level2/solar_system.html

http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/planets/

http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/menu/solar-system/

http://www.amnh.org/explore/ology/astronomy/planetary-mysteries

http://planetfacts.org/size-of-planets-in-order/

Sample data to collect

Planet Distance from sun

Average temperate

(facing sun)

Diameter Time to orbit the Sun

(in Earth days)

Time to rotate on

axis (in hours)

Type of planet

Atmosphere Other information

Mercury

Venus

Earth 149.6 million

km

20⁰C 12, 800km

365.3 days 24hrs Rocky Nitrogen & oxygen

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune

Graphing options

Bar graphs: show numbers that are independent of each other, (e.g. the diameter of individual planets)

Pie charts: show you how a whole is divided up. (e.g. amount of daylight and night time in a 24hr period on a set day)

Line graphs: show you how something changes over time. (e.g. average temperature for each month of the year)

Scatter graph: compares two sets of data that are likely to have an impact on one another (e.g. distance from sun vs average temperature

on planet)

Images for art

Mercury

Venus

Earth

Mars

Jupiter

Saturn

Uranus

Neptune