Ds2 (6) is interested in the movements of the planets. We can't afford a trip to the Planetarium. Do we have to make a complicated model?

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Or is there Another Way....?

um, you could rig up something with coat hangers and different shaped balls ? what are those things called, begin with O ?

different sized balls I meant

Do you have a big garden? With a clothes line post? Am thinking football on post, strings...

Oraries, MM? (Not sure of spelling)
DS has this one

You could do it with people! DS did it as a topic last term and the class did an assembly on it (DS was Uranus - so pround!! ).

Don't ask me what goes where though!

that's the word funnypeculiar - that one looks fab !

We made a mobile which was pretty straightforward. Will look for it...

This one

this is fun

Here you go, half-price at £5 too

Ooh thanks everybody, LOTS to investigate

There is a big space section at the Science Museum, which is free. They must have some kind of solar system model there. I know they have an antique Orary in the 18th C science gallery as well.

If you are in London, the Observatory at Greenwich has been splendidly refurbished and is completely free.

Oh really? Perhaps we will have to try and do London then. I do have a couple of handily-placed relatives....