VIDEO: Sam made a scale model of the Solar System with his family!

Vertasium Video for Tonight's You-Be-the-Teacher Assignment

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Mr. Parr: Solar System Song

Here we go, Galaxy
There's a space out there, the Milky Way
On an arm of Orion
We sit right there the Solar System

Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
Up, up here we go, go
Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
From Mercury out to Pluto

Mercury closest to the Sun
No atmosphere and small like a runt
No moons there to surround it
Distance from the Sun- 70 million km.
Next is Venus crazy atmosphere
Hottest planet and no water vapor
Third is Earth-life is in this place
We have one moon and tectonic plates

Here we go, Galaxy
There's a space out there, the Milky Way
On an arm of Orion
We sit right there the Solar System

Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
Up, up here we go, go
Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
From Mercury out to Pluto

Mars, the red planet very dusty
Atmosphere is very thin, crust is bumpy
Jupiter is next in line
Biggest planet in the sky
And the big red spot running endless
Yeah, where we at? It's the ringed one
Saturn's the planet less dense the H2O
Spinning so fast flattened at the poles
Has 62 moons
And made of clouds

Here we go, Galaxy
There's a space out there, the Milky Way
On an arm of Orion
We sit right there the Solar System
Let's fly

Now Uranus is a blue-green color
Gas planet rotates south to north
Neptune is the last of the planets
Strongest winds there "Scooter's" twisting
The coldest planet it's so far, not close
The last one but what about Pluto
I'm like Plut...o...o...o
Not a Planet, Oh, oh, oh

Here we go, Galaxy
There's a space out there, the Milky Way
On an arm of Orion
We sit right there the Solar System

Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
Up, up here we go, go
Let's fly (fly, fly, fly, fly)
Up, up here we go, go
From Mercury out to Pluto

VIDEO: The Solar System Song by KidsTV123

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I am the sun. I'm a burning ball of fire. I'm very big indeed.
Life on earth depends on me. I am the sun.

I am Mercury. I'm the closest planet to the sun.
I'm a ball of iron -- I have no moons. I am Mercury.

I am Venus. I'm the same size as the Earth but I spin the other way and much more slowly.
I have no water -- I am Venus.

I am the Earth the place. The where we all live. There is land and lots of sea so I look blue.
I have a moon. I am the Earth.

I am Mars. I'm a rocky, red planet. My mountains are the highest in our solar system.
I have 2 moons. I am Mars.

I am Jupiter. I'm a gas giant. I'm the biggest and I spin the fastest. I have the biggest moon. I am Jupiter.

I am Saturn. I'm a gas giant. My rings are made of ice. Titan is my biggest moon. I am Saturn.

I am Uranus. I'm an icy gas giant. I'm the coldest planet in our solar system. And I have rings made of dust. I am Uranus.

I am Neptune. I'm an icy gas giant. I'm the farthest planet from the sun. I have many storms. I am Neptune.

We are The Solar System.

VIDEO: "Family of the Sun" Song by the Air and Space Museum

Model of the Solar System Using Toilet Paper!

The 4th graders have been learning about the planets in the Solar System-- what makes them similar and different, what makes a planet a planet, etc.

Check out this video from NOVA: Definition of a Planet.

Today, we concentrated on the "space" in space, asking ourselves how far apart the planets are (on average) from each other. We constructed an 84-foot model, using 200 sheets of toilet paper. In this shaky video, you can see how closely the Terrestrial Planets (planets more like Earth-- Mercury, Venus, and Mars) are grouped together and how far apart the Jovian Planets (the "Gas Giants"- Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) are. The white wall to the right approximately represents the Sun. The very last person to the right represents Pluto, now classified as a dwarf planet.

It's important to remember that even though this model seems very big, we would need a much bigger model to represent the relative sizes of the planets. In our 84-foot TP model, Jupiter would be the size of a grain of salt.

The students are singing "The Family of the Sun" song.



Thanks to Suzanne Chippindale and the Astronomical Society of the Pacific for putting out this terrific lesson. You can click on the pic below to see the full lesson.

Online Assignment

Hello 4th Graders!

You must complete the following before having more free time in the Astronomy folder:

1. Mcgraw-Hill: Our Solar System (do quiz/game that follows)
2. NOVA: What is a Planet?
3. Study Jams: Our Solar System Inner Planets (read and study all slides and do quiz)
4. Study Jams: Our Solar System Outer Planets (read and study all slides and do quiz)
5. BrainPop: Solar System (watch and do REVIEW quiz)

Have fun and expand your brain!

REMEMBER: When you are done, you can have more free time exploring the Astronomy folder.