Make a book about The Solar System

March 6, 2008 — Mr Chittenden

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/

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Vital Organs done; Earth and Space next up

February 29, 2008 — Mr Chittenden

Well done 8-2 on your work on the Vital Organs topic.  We will assess your tests on Monday.  Next up is the Earth and Space topic.  To get a head-start, you could have a search for the different planets on Yahooligans :-).

How about this video from YouTube to get you started?

- a nice review of the planets in the Solar System.

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