Help your students to understand the solar system with our ‘Your Age in the Solar System’ product.
The purpose of this resource is to get your students thinking about orbits and rotations in a different way, and what better way to do this than linking these scientific concepts with their age and birthday. By completing these activities, students will gain a better understanding of the orbits and rotations from the planets in our solar system.
In this worksheet we have provided a link to a website that can calculate your age on the other planets in the solar system. Students then write down their age measured by the days (rotation) and year (orbit) of each planet.
You can find it here at https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html
We guarantee some VERY interesting results!
Product includes:
⭐ Worksheet for recording your student’s ages on other planets via a calculator
⭐ Worksheet for recording your student’s ages on other planets with the assistance of a website
⭐ Short answer questions based on the results the students obtained.
⭐ Product includes worksheets with and without the Australian Curriculum codes
⭐ Answers included
Australian Curriculum Year 6
Science Understanding | Earth and Space Sciences | AC9S6U02 – describe the movement of Earth and other planets relative to the sun and model how Earth’s tilt, rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun relate to cyclic observable phenomena, including variable day and night length
Resource Type: PDF
Number of Pages: 16
Help your students to understand the solar system with our ‘Your Age in the Solar System’ product.
The purpose of this resource is to get your students thinking about orbits and rotations in a different way, and what better way to do this than linking these scientific concepts with their age and birthday. By completing these activities, students will gain a better understanding of the orbits and rotations from the planets in our solar system.
In this worksheet we have provided a link to a website that can calculate your age on the other planets in the solar system. Students then write down their age measured by the days (rotation) and year (orbit) of each planet.
You can find it here at https://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/age/index.html
We guarantee some VERY interesting results!
Product includes:
⭐ Worksheet for recording your student’s ages on other planets via a calculator
⭐ Worksheet for recording your student’s ages on other planets with the assistance of a website
⭐ Short answer questions based on the results the students obtained.
⭐ Product includes worksheets with and without the Australian Curriculum codes
⭐ Answers included
Australian Curriculum Year 6
Science Understanding | Earth and Space Sciences | AC9S6U02 – describe the movement of Earth and other planets relative to the sun and model how Earth’s tilt, rotation on its axis and revolution around the sun relate to cyclic observable phenomena, including variable day and night length
Resource Type: PDF
Number of Pages: 16
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