We are studying a new science topic this week.

We are answering some “big questions.” Today our big question was “How do the earth, moon and sun interact?”

First of all we created a Wallwisher/Padlet to record everything we thought we knew about the sun.

We watched this animation from the Children’s University of Manchester which explained the orbit of the moon, earth and sun.

We learned that orbit means to go around something in the same way over and over again.

Here are some new thing we found out:

The sun is 100 times bigger than the earth.

The earth turns around once every 24 hours.
The moon orbits around the earth once every 28 days.
It takes 365 days (and a quarter!) for the earth to go around the sun.
The sun does not move.

This enabled us to answer some of the questions we had put on our Wallwisher.

I wonder what we will find out tomorrow?