Primary 6 have been enjoying lots of STEM related learning this term. We started the term with our Scottish Inventors topic and are looking forward to sharing our learning from this in our class assembly this Friday morning. We have now started a new topic on the Solar System and had fun including visitors from home in our learning last week. We are learning about the planets in our Solar System and have been researching planets of our choice. Here are some interesting facts we have already discovered:
- Darci found out that Saturn has 62 moons and Gillon discovered that Pluto has 5 moons (compared to Earth’s one). Eilidh and Amber’s research showed that Mars’s 2 moons are called Phobos and Deimos.
- Samuel’s research showed that the atmosphere of Mars is made up of mostly carbon dioxide, while Jamie’s showed that Jupiter’s atmosphere consists mainly of hydrogen and helium.
- Mia discovered that the surface of Mars is covered in a fine dust similar to talcum powder.
- Amen found out that Saturn has a radius of 58, 232 km and it is 1.434 billion km from the Sun.
- Summer discovered that Mercury has a surface area of 74.8 million square kilometres.
- Samantha’s researched the dwarf planet of Eris and found that one year on Eris is the same as 557 years on Earth.
