This term, Class 5 will be looking at the Earth, Moon and Sun in Science. We began by making slide shows about the planets and comparing the sizes of the planets of the solar system. We will go on to look at gravity, the phases of the Moon, and the way the Sun affects our lives on Earth.
There are a wide range of excellent websites where you can find out more, let us know if you find a useful source of information! Here are some to get you started:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b019h4g8
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/
http://www.solarsystemscope.com/
http://www.exploratorium.edu/explore/astronomy
What would you like to find out?
What have you enjoyed learning?
What interesting facts have you discovered?
The link was-
http://www.seasky.org/solar-system/solar-system.html
It was a really enjoyable science lesson, I learned a lot. I am very pleased that our topic for this term is space, as it is an extremely interesting subject. We were learning about the Solar System, and the surprises and wonders in it. There are eight planets in the Solar System, however, there are nine if you count Pluto. We matched objects and their sizes to the planets.
A truly brilliant website Elysia; here are a few few facts I discovered: Asteroids and Meteoroids are cosmic leftovers; there are approximately 30,000 between Mars and Jupiter. They are possibly chunks of failed planets.
Comets are composed mainly of ice with dust and fragments of rock. The ice can be both water ice and frozen gases.
The tail of a comet is actually invisible until it begins to get close to the Sun.
The interior temprature of the sun is 15,000,000 centigrade.
There is a total of 140 moons in the entire Solar System.
I really liked our science lesson, it was really fun arranging all the planets to their size e.g the peppercorn was Mercury since it is so small. Venus is hotter than Mercury! Pluto is no longer a planet since it a dwaf planet. Thank you Miss Fullana for arranging the lesson.
It was a really fun lesson because we got to use fruits and objects. The answer to Governer Ben’s question is :149,600,000 km. I hope we do something else like that.
I liked learning about the solar system because it has lots of intresting things and it has lots of things I didnt know, but now I do know like I didn’t know the sun WASN’T a planet, I thought it WAS a planet.
Very good work. 😉
That seems like lots of fun!!!!!