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Formation of the Solar System
This resource, from the Royal Observatory Greenwich, discusses a range of topics about how the Sun, planets, asteroids and/or moons have been formed over millions of years.
It begins with an elegantly animated video exploring some of the the different theories for how the different components of the solar system may have formed. There are then two activities.
Activity 1 - students watch the video and answer a crossword based on what they have learned.
Activity 2 - students create a comic strip to summarise the different processes.
The versions for the key stage 3 activities cover the same ideas as for key stage 2, but the worksheets provided expect students to work more independently.
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