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Term 5 - Science

In our science learning, Year 5 and 6 have been learning about the solar system. The children have lots of excellent questions about space, and they've enjoyed learning more about the solar system. Lots of them were surprised to learn that the Sun is also a star! 

To help us understand how far away the planets in our solar system are from each other, we went to the courts and made a scale model of the solar system, using our bodies to represent the sun and the planets, and one pace to represent 50,000,000 km! We couldn't quite go far enough to represent Neptune accurately, but that led to an excellent problem-solving discussion about where in the school grounds we could go to make the scale model. Three groups had a go at the challenge of representing the solar system as a scale model, and we noticed that not all of the 'planets' were in the same place. This got us thinking about units of measure and how we could work and measure more accurately in the future. 

We noticed that the four rocky planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) were all much closer to the Sun (and to each other) than they were to the gas giants. This made us wonder if this is why the planets have the features that they do. We have a lot more research to do!







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