Student use microscopes to take a further look into what
materials our planet is made up on. Students observe and
Students explore why astronauts float in space
Students explore the life cycle of our sun.
Students research and explore how the eight planets where
formed.
Student explore why Pluto has become a dwarf planet and
justify their answer in a poster presentation.
Student explore the history of the moon and how it was made
possible to land on.
Students explore the history of their own planet Earth and
how it has evolved over the years.
Science / Technology and Enterprise
record their observation
History
Students explore the rings of certain planets.
Students explore the moons on each planet.
Student investigate meteors that have fallen into the
atmosphere
Students create cartoon of the man landing on the moon.
The Arts Student create a paper mache solar system in group. Taking
into account the surface of each planet, craters and their
colour.
Students create a A3 sized solar system using recycled
materials.
Student scale the distance of planets from the sun to be
presented in life form with the use of toilet paper (explore
lesson)
Maths Student create a bar graph based on their recoding of how
many moons each planet has.
Concept Map: The Solar System
Students scale the planets done to the nearest million
kilometre from the sun and present their data on a bar graph
Student summarise in a report from what they know about
the solar system.
This activity could be planned in an evaluate lesson
Student partake in activities where they can demonstrate the
Geography the roll of gravity.
Students write a proposal for and against for a trip to anHealth and physical education
assigned planet
English
Students Prepare a script about news of an individual whom
landed on Mars. Students work in pares as one person an
interviewer and one person the inidvudal who landed on
mars.
Interviewer prepares questions for the individual who landed
on the planet mars to answer.
Students explore planets asteroids, and comets within it.