
Solar System Distances
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6th Grade
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Nathan Gealta
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13 Slides • 14 Questions
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Solar System Distances
A Quizizz Experiment
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Open Ended
Does this picture give us an accurate view of our Solar System?
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Almost 100% of the images you have seen of the Solar System are not accurate.
Mainly because pictures that are the correct scale are kind of boring.
"Hey, I think that tiny little dot right there is the Earth!"
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Objectives:
We will understand how vast the solar system is.
We will understand how distance is measured in the solar system.
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Multiple Select
What will we be learning today?
We will understand how vast the solar system is
Sciencey Stuff
Math
We will understand how distance is measured in space.
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Open Ended
Name some place that you visit often (Maybe several times a week)
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It is easy for your brain to get a sense of familiar distances such as the distance from home to school. It is much harder to imagine huge distances such as those in the solar system.
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We're going to be exploring an incredible website.
I love sharing this website with students because he really shows how far away objects in the solar system are from each other.
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This website breaks down our Solar System in an accurate way.
It shows how big our solar system would still be if the moon were the size of one pixel.
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You will have 5 minutes or so to investigate this site.
Please keep this Quizziz tab open.
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AWESOME WEBSITE!
Please keep this tab open! Then come back to the LL room!
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Open Ended
Welcome Back! What did you think of that website? What did you learn?
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Multiple Choice
Give it your best guess, how far away from the sun is planet Earth?
1 Million Miles
93 Millions Miles
480 Millions Miles
100 Miles
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93 Millions Miles!
That's how far the Earth is from the sun.
Neptune is 2.7 BILLION miles from the sun!
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Because the distance in space is so MASSIVE scientists created a special way to measure those distances.
Introducing....
The AU
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The AU (Astronomical Unit) is the distance from the sun to the Earth.
1 AU= 150,000,000 km
or
1 AU= 93,000,000 miles
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Open Ended
What is an AU?
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Multiple Choice
How far away from the sun is the Earth?
1 AU
1.23 AU
14 AU
30 AU
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
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Multiple Choice
The planets in the solar system are so far apart that scientists measure the distances between them in
miles (mi)
kilometers (km)
astronomical units (AU)
inches (in)
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Multiple Choice
What keeps planets in orbit around the Sun?
the Sun's mass
the Sun's period of rotation
the Sun's gravitational force
the Sun's color
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