Topic 13 - Let's get to know our solar system / earth's system

IMPLEMENTATIONS

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.