Around the sun 

Hundreds of years ago, people believed that sun and the solar system revolves around earth. In reality, Earth and the solar system all evolve around sun. Try this activity to see how the planets orbit the sun

You need an adult to help you if you are under 15 

Model of the solar system

You will need:         Slice each of the balls in half

A pocket knife                                                      

Ten styrofoam Balls  Paint the balls according to the chart 

Paint match.               

Math tool sting glue 

Poster board 

Largest ball     Sun.              Yellow 

                      Jupiter.       Dark yellow 

                      Saturn.             Brown 

                       Uranus.      Light blue 

                      Neptune     Deep blue 

                       Earth.         Blue + green 

                      Venus.      Brown and orange 

                       Mars.                Red

                     Mercury.           Dark gray 

Smallest ball.  Pluto.              Light gray 

Using a ruler and a pencil mark a dot from the left  edge of the board 13 cm. Mark The second dot 13 cm away from the first dot been barking dogs one dots has 2 to 3 inches or 6 to 7 cm for  distance you will see that you made a 3D model of the solar system

              The color of sunshine 

𝙷𝚊𝚟𝚎 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚎𝚟𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚍 𝚠𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚌𝚘𝚕𝚘𝚛 𝚒𝚜 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚜𝚞𝚗𝚜𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚎 ? 𝚃𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚠𝚒𝚝𝚑 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚊𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚟𝚒𝚝𝚢 𝚋𝚎𝚕𝚘𝚠 

𝙸𝚗𝚐𝚛𝚎𝚍𝚒𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 :              Add the teaspoon of milk in the jar and stur 

Glass jar with cold water   Shine the flashlight through the side of the jar

A teaspoon of milk         Now hold the flashlight at the neck of the jar 

A flashlight               What colour was the water on both experience? 

       Orbit of the planets 

All the known planets in our solar system orbit the sun. The planets are always mooving around the sun in ellipse-shaped orbits.

Ingredients        Hot stuff

A lamp.      1.Turn on the lights before you start 

White paper 2.Measure distances from the lamps suface as 1.3cm 2.5cm 3.8cm up ruler       to 11.4cm.   3. Write the planets in order according to their 

Pen.     distances from the lamp (it's sun) find the order under 

4. Place your hand at each of the planets and tell how your hand feels 

Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto