Mr Chittenden’s Science Lab

For the next 3 lessons, your task, Year 8 Scientists, is to work in a group to produce a book with the title “The Solar System”.

Your book should include:

• Front cover
• Contents page
• The order of the planets / mneumonic
• Facts and statistics about each planet
• Relevant pictures
• Anything else that you would like to include

To get you started on your personal research, try the following links which will open in a new window:

http://www.extremescience.com/earthsciport.htm

http://www.nineplanets.org/

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

And how about this?!  You can take a virtual tour of the surface of Mars here:

http://www.google.com/mars/

The moon is on there too (the moon is a satellite of Earth):

http://www.google.com/moon/