Year 5 are loving the start of their Space science topic! To begin with, we asked questions about space like professional scientists would, and thought of methods to answer them. We learned what our solar system is made up of and what a galaxy is. We explored how incredibly vast our solar system is, and created our own 1m long models which are a more to scale than most diagrams and show how spread out the planets really are.

Did you know that to make a solar system model that is to scale using a small marble to represent the Earth, your model would need to be approximately 7 miles long?