Content: Earth and Space Sciences Term 3 Week: 5-10

Content: Earth and Space Sciences Term 3 Week: 5-10

1. Health and Physical Education

   • Use physical movement to demonstrate the orbit of the planets (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)
   • Students play a modified game of duck, duck goose, but instead the participants act as the Earth and the Moon, and chase each other in a circle to represent the orbit

2. Humanities

   • Linking the ideas of space to Indigenous theories about planet orbit (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)

3. English

   • Have a debate about the orbit of the planets
   • Student recount the life of Galileo (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)

4. Mathematics

   • Measuring the distance between each planet and the Sun
   • Create webs of 3D shapes, to look at the difference between 2D shapes and 3D shapes (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)
   • Investigate the different time zones around the world, and how it links to the rising and setting of the Sun (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)
   • Students investigate how old they are on different planets (Australian Academy of Science, 2012)

5. Religious Education

   • Research the different ideas about the planets when Jesus was on Earth
   • Students look at the spiritual meaning behind the Moon, Sun and Stars

6. LOTE

   • Look at the names of the planets in different languages
   • Translate the key words from the glossary into another language