We had a great time visualizing the scale of our solar system by using a toilet paper model to help give a sense of perspective about how far various planets are from the sun. Enjoy the pictures of students modeling a planet's orbit by running around the various lengths of toilet paper - or planetary orbital paths, if you prefer ;)
We recently studied the solar system. Students had a great time learning about the different planets and how they orbit our sun, or "sol." We also learned about stars, constellations, the moon and talked about astronomy and NASA's astronauts. We had a great time visualizing the scale of our solar system by using a toilet paper model to help give a sense of perspective about how far various planets are from the sun. Enjoy the pictures of students modeling a planet's orbit by running around the various lengths of toilet paper - or planetary orbital paths, if you prefer ;)
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Gage
3/12/2015 03:56:26 pm
It was so much fun just getting measure
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Mrs. Macario
3/17/2015 02:23:59 pm
So glad you had fun with that. I did, too! It was cool seeing how far apart those planets are from each other.
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jandee,kate,mele,angie
3/20/2015 09:20:54 am
did you like our poster? p.s the toilet paper rolling was so much fun, and really cool because you can see how far Neptune and pluto is.p.s I forgot if pluto was or was not there.anyways we love the solar system.x_o_x_o jandee,kate,mele,and,angie.
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kyren
3/31/2015 07:19:10 am
puuuuuuuupppppppppppppyyyyyyyyyyyyysssssssssssss.bye.........
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kyren
3/31/2015 08:06:01 am
i cant be friends with you or gage.to aati
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Lorey
4/10/2015 12:42:16 pm
Sad that we didn't do Plouto it would been fun to count 100 toilet paper rolls
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