Topic 13 - Let's get to know our solar system / earth's system
Sundials along the Earth
Didactic objectives
- Understand the time and change association.
- Learn how to quantify a change.
- Relate the movement of the Sun to the measurement of time.
- Making a basic sundial.
- Express our ideas in public and respect the turn to speak.
The physical Nature of the Planets
Didactic objectives
- To be able to name the planets in the correct order from the Sun.
- To be able to explain how the Earth and other planets move around the Sun.
- To explain why planets orbit the Sun.
- To represent the planets as cubes to represent their approximate volume.
- To use dry sand to represent the mass of the planets.
- To use Twinkl to represent the solar system in AR.
The Inferior Planets
Didactic objectives
- To be able to define axial tilt, albedo, inferior planet superior planet.
- To be able to use celestial coordinates to define position.
- To understand the relative sizes of Mercury, Venus and Earth.
- To draw the orbits of the inferior planets.
- To accurately draw ellipses.
- To use Twinkl to represent the solar system in AR.
- To define the angles of elongation of the inferior planets.
- To recognise that Venus has phases the same as the moon.
To calculate the Synodic period of Mercury.