Spaceships
Use the parts to make your very own spacecraft. Choose or build a body and then add windows, engines, legs and antennae.
Key points:
- Is it from Earth or an alien planet?
- How is it powered?
- Where would you go if you could ride in it?
The Solar System
What do you know about the solar system and the planets? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to write and create pictures about it.
Key points:
- What is the order of the planets from the sun?
- What are their relative sizes?
- What are the sun and the planets made of?
- What about moons around other planets?
The Sun
What do you know about the sun? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to create a factsheet.
Key points:
- What is the role of the sun in the solar system?
- How does the sun affect Earth?
- What is the sun made of?
- How does our sun compare with other stars?
The Earth and its satellite
What do you know about planet Earth and its moon? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to create a factsheet.
Key points:
- Where does Earth lie in the solar system?
- What do you know about the moon?
- Why is planet Earth so special?
- How is Earth different to the other planets?
The rocky planets
What do you know about the rocky planets? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to create a factsheet.
Key points:
- What is the order of the planets from the sun?
- What are conditions like on these planets?
- How are the rocky planets different from the gas planets?
- What about their moons?
The gas giants
What do you know about the planets known as the "gas giants"? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to create a factsheet.
Key points:
- What is the order of the planets from the sun?
- What are conditions like on these planets?
- How are the gas planets different from the rocky planets?
- What about their moons?
Other objects in the solar system
What do you know about the solar system and the planets? Choose a template and use the text and picture tools to create a factsheet.
Key points:
- Where does your chosen object lie in the solar system?
- How big is it?
- What is it made of?
