Characteristics of the Earth and Solar System!!!

Dear Parents and Students,

We have been working on a unit over the Earth and the Solar System. We have explored to layers that make up the Earth:

1. Inner Core
2. Outer Core
3. Mantle
4. Crust

We have also studied the other planets in our solar system and the order that they go in:

1. Sun (Star)
2. Mercury
3. Venus
4. Earth
5. Jupiter
6. Saturn
7. Uranus
8. Neptune

The students also have studied the size differences of the planets, but not in much detail.

We were unable to cover the size differences of the planet much in class, so this site will come in handy for those students who prefer to see everything visually represented. Students can choose two planets and click the size comparison button to show the difference.

We learned about the order of the planets fairly extensively in class. Students can use this site to select the planet that is named based on looks and order from the sun. Quiz yourself and try to get a 100.

Make a visual representation of the layers of the Earth with food. With the help of your parents make a big bowl of Earth.

Note to the parents:
I wanted to let you know that we also took a walk around the school yard Friday, leaving various sized round objects around the grounds to represent the size of the planets. We also took proportional amounts of steps between the Sun and each planet, so that the students could actually get a feel for how far apart everything out there truly is. Also, a small idea of the sizes of the planets related to the sun. Time permitting you might ask your student to show what we did to you, most of them got pretty into it.

Thanks for you support parents!!

Miss Turner