Saturn Project for 7 year old - some exciting ideas please

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Apart from bullet points and pictures - what else could we do ? A model? Ideas plaese

how about comparing the size of saturn with the other planets? Some kids won't realise the huge difference in size.....maybe use an orange a football a golfball, a gobstopper, that sort of thing?

yes or make a mobile of all the planets to compare?

yes - trying to think of a box witn the planets in it but not really sure how

how to make the circles? balls?

this has some interesting facts - especially that Saturn would float on water!!

Listen to Holst's Planet Suite - Saturn? Include a CD of it?

I think Saturn turns round in one day and has several moons? research this and write a 'day in a life' diary that only takes 10 hours instead of 24, (or however long a day - and a year - are on SAturn) and what it would mean to have lots of moons in the sky, not just one?

Make a calendar for a planet that orbits at a different rate to our calendar year.

Look at the constellations Saturn appears in.

i'd just do a 2d cardboard one it'd be easier!

Do them in cardboard, thread them on a wire in the right order, and with sizes and distances as close to scale as possible.

great ideas Blu - youonly hav e a birthday once every 29 years - hmm!!

So to make the balls?

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Is that the language of Saturn, Beetroot??

This month's National Geographic Magazine
has an article and great pictures of "Saturn as You've Never Seen It". I saw it in the dentist's waiting room this morning.

Enchanted Learning is a good website for lots of topics, including planets. They have quizzy things and diagrams for colouring.

We've just had the same issue with ds's Y3 Romans project -- lots of academically ambitious parents in his class, so the stakes are high. There've apparantly been models of Roman temples, model Roman sandals, genuine mosaics and a Roman tunic sewn by boy himself from unbleached calico (that was us, btw!). Ideally you want something that boy can do without too much adult intervention, and you can photograph him doing, for maximum page coverage and right-on-ness.

Look at the websites of the sciency toy companies (Bright Minds, Mindware) for ideas -- there's a kit you can buy to make a mobile of the planets, to scale, natch. Dd1 was given it a few years ago and did actually make it, but imagine how many more brownie points you'd get for a DIY version. Or you could adapt an old lego motor to make the whole thing rotate. If you could be arsed, that is.

enchanted learning is a great site - we have made a solar system -