Earth’s Place in Space

5/6J were given the challenge of making an Orrery. An orrery is a model with moving parts, often used to describe models of the solar system. In pairs, students had to create an orrery of the earth, moon and sun and have the celestial bodies orbiting and rotating. They were given a selection of materials…

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Earth Shattering Earthquakes

We have just finished our Mammoth Unit of Work on Earthquakes!  Today we did our assessment task, An ‘Open’ task, where we were just given a piece of paper to show our understanding in any form. Below is some photos from our different experiments on earthquakes. We have enjoyed adding lots of vocabulary to our…

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