We have recently been studying space science. The last couple of weeks we explored how big (or small, depending on how you look at it) our solar system is by walking a 100 meter scaled model of it on the playground. We then built our Milky Way Galaxy out of paper and visualized where our solar system fit inside that model and tried to visualize our galaxy as one of 30 galaxies in the Local Group, just a few galaxies in the universe.
We continued to dig into science standard E5B4 to understand the cyclical patterns of observable objects in the solar system by having a guest speaker visit to talk about meteors and asteroids. Ask your child what he or she thought of the guest speaker, as he was quite different. Students then created a model of the surface of a planet with flour and grape drink mix and explored impact crators.
