Thursday 5 April 2012

1.36

1.36

15 March 2012

10:27
· 1.36 understand that:
· the universe is a large collection of billions of galaxies
· a galaxy is a large collection of billions of stars
· our solar system is in the Milky Way galaxy
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Comparative sizes of planets and stars

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Comparative sizes of galaxies

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Powers of 10 - Cosmic Voyage

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All of the scales of Physics

http://htwins.net/scale2/

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1.36 Space is big! Scale model of the solar system

12 May 2011

14:47
· Type the length of your classroom into cell B5 to get the solar system scaled to fit!
· Check out column U for information about the nearest star to our solar system!

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Online version

http://www.exploratorium.edu/ronh/solar_system/

1.36 Plenary Answers

15 March 2012

10:30
1. What is the solar system?

Everything that orbits our local star, the Sun
2. What is the Milky Way?

The galaxy that contains our solar system
3. What is a galaxy?

A huge collection of billions of stars
4. How many galaxies are there in the Universe?

Billions

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