Google Earth (Planet Distance)

This week Mr. Johnston came in and taught LS2 about our inquiry topic space, and the real distance and size of planets. We learnt that on scale, planets seem very close to each other and doesn't showcase the actual size of the planets, because it'll be too big, it is defined by something like a 1 meter in real life. Everyone was amazing and surprised when Mr. Johnston got out a giant sun, the size of the white board. He did a lot of measuring to make this scaled sun. We took a guess at the distance of each planet before being proved completely wrong by Mr. Johnston. We then created Google Earth's of the "solar system", choosing where the sun is from any point in New Zealand after learning from Mr. Johnston. I worked with Nyjah, Mele, and Marieta to create the distance of the planets using a piece of paper with their meter distance. We placed the sun at our school, on the theatre. I was enjoyed doing this, and making a google earth of the solar system.