{"id":1743,"date":"2023-12-12T15:58:16","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/?p=1743"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:58:16","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T15:58:16","slug":"planets-in-the-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/2023\/12\/12\/planets-in-the-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Planets in the Playground"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to see how far apart each planet was.<\/p>\n<p>We had to show the distance each planet was from the sun.\u00a0 The distances were scaled down.<\/p>\n<p>Instead of always going back to the sun we decided to calculate how many cm we had to add from one planet to the next.<\/p>\n<p>This was tricky calculations, that we worked on together.<\/p>\n<p>Then we had to decide on the best\u00a0 tool for measuring.\u00a0 \u00a0We had a ruler, a metre stick and a trundle wheel.<\/p>\n<p>Once we measured each distance out it was clear to see how close some planets were and how far apart others were.<\/p>\n<p>Eve: &#8220;I liked it because we got to learn how far from the sun each planet was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Theo:&#8221; I liked when we were measuring how far apart each planet was.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Logan:&#8221; We had to calculate the distance we had to measure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We discovered that using smaller numbers to scale was easier than using big numbers.\u00a0 It helped us visualise the distances between the planets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1744\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155718\/1-2-e1702396647332-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155718\/1-2-e1702396647332-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155718\/1-2-e1702396647332.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1745\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/2-3-e1702396656449-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/2-3-e1702396656449-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/2-3-e1702396656449.jpg 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1746\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/3-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/3-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155719\/3-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1747\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155720\/4-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155720\/4-3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/public\/soundb2019\/uploads\/sites\/3189\/2023\/12\/12155720\/4-3.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We wanted to see how far apart each planet was. We had to show the distance each planet was from the sun.\u00a0 The distances were scaled down. Instead of always going back to the sun we decided to calculate how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/2023\/12\/12\/planets-in-the-playground\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,12],"tags":[34,33],"class_list":["post-1743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-numeracy","category-science","tag-measure","tag-planets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1743"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1748,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1743\/revisions\/1748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sh\/soundb2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}