The Solar System, stars and the Pole Star
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Make up your own sentence or rhyme to remember the order of the planets.
Each word should start with the first letter of a planet: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
2
Light travels 384 000 km from the Moon at 300 000 km/s. About how many seconds? (round to a whole number)
384 000 : 300 000 ≈ 1.3 s, i.e. about 1 second.
3
With your parents find Ursa Major in the night sky, locate the Pole Star and check north with a compass.
The direction of the Pole Star should match the compass north.
4
Write one sentence each for Sun, star, planet and comet showing how they differ.
Sun – a star; star – gives its own light; planet – orbits the Sun and reflects light; comet – an icy nucleus with a tail.