Monday 3 March 2014

Building the Solar System


Solar System
Our project was to make a solar system, to scale using a beanbag as the sun and also using a roll of toilet paper, from the staff toilets, which represents the distance from the sun to Neptune (the furthest planet from the sun).
We had a sheet of paper that had the distance from the sun in million km and it also said the average diameter of the planets in km. We thought that every square of toilet roll represented 60,000,000km. It turned out perfectly going into 75 squares of toilet paper with Neptune at the end.
We marked out the planets and went to find objects that were about the right size and placed them on the corresponding marks.
Then Mr Stubbs came out and took our photo.
We think that this project went very well seeing as we only had 1 hour to complete the project!!
-         Josh W, Declan, Darcey, David Y, Connor P, Emily SG and Ellie R

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