1G3 and 1D3 will be issued homework during this week.
The homework sheet is included below.
Daily Archives: January 24, 2017
Planet research
Teaching materials for the ‘Planet research’ task are included below.
The second version includes Polish slides along with the English
Space sites
A number of sites on the Space topic have been added to the list at the bottom right of our blog site. All of these are at the right level for S1 pupils and will help in researching planets and astronomy. They are also the jumping off point to other more advanced sites if you want to follow any information through.
Our solar system
Following the big bang, swirling clouds of helium and hydrogen formed stars. The stars then collected into billions of galaxies of billions of stars. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way and our sun (Sol) is one of of its stars.
We have now been looking at the planets and other bodies that make up our solar system.
We have learned the names of the planets and the order that they lie in from the sun. We looked at a memory trick to help remember the right order. We are now researching the individual planets to find data and facts about them which we will present to the rest of the class.
