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Solar System activities
This resource, aimed at primary level, contains three activities relating to the Solar System. In the first activity children create a solar system flip book to show that the four planets closest to the Sun (Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars) revolve around the Sun in the same direction, but at different speeds.
Using this information they deduce that the length of a year isn't the same from one planet to the next and find out that their birthdays wouldn't be celebrated at the same frequency on these planets as on Earth.
In Spicy Solar system children build a representation of the solar system to scale using edible ingredients that can be easily sourced and in Super Saturn they make a model of Saturn using a CD and a polystyrene ball.
These activities have been provided by European Universe Awareness (EU-UNAWE).
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