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• Talk about what a solar system model that demonstrates the relative average distances between the planets and the Sun and the relative sizes of the planets would look like. Save your Solar System Statistics cards for future activities.
distance scale 1 cm : 1 astronomical unit (note the mention of lower-case) or 149,597,870.7 km. Provide a simple ruler, a pencil, and an example, and have students make their own to take home. Tape the information onto the back of the sheet, for those who want to keep the actual numbers.
Although we could print the planet sizes to scale, the paper would need to be way too large to show the scaled distances. Instead, to help you understand the sizes and distances of our solar system, we’ve created a scale model. Our Solar System, real imagery but not to scale.
Let s get started! se to Earth, while the Sun and other planets even farther away. Talk about scale and how good a way to show the vast distances among the planets is to make a scale. model that is smaller than the actual. Talk about the planets with the kids. STEP 1: IDENTIFY THE PLANETS.
This is a simple little model to give you an overview of the distances between the orbits of the planets and other objects in our Solar System. Provide a quick, easy-to-make and remember scale of the approx distances of the planetʼs orbits and orbital distance of other realms (asteroids, Kuiper Belt) from the Sun.
Mercury is 1.9 sheets relative to the Sun, Venus 3.6 sheets from the Sun, etc. See how well your family did at estimating the distances. Move the planets to their proper distances, and you've built a scale model of the solar system.
Go to Educator Guide. Have you ever wondered about the sizes of planets in the solar system or the distances between them? In this project, you will create your own scale model of the solar system by learning how to calculate scale distances, the relative sizes of planets, or both.
