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I have to present a science fair project to my small group in science class in class Friday. It is geared toward second grade students. Any ideas like a solar system mobile or anything else that is not a book relating to the solar system?\Something "hands-on.:confused: :confused: :confused:

 

Thanks for the help

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Can you take them outside? have balls as the planets, use the school field to show them just HOW big the solar system is...

 

How small of balls are you thinking? I remember(I think it was on Bill Nye the Science Guy) someone did that and they had to use the whole town.

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How small of balls are you thinking? I remember(I think it was on Bill Nye the Science Guy) someone did that and they had to use the whole town.

 

As long as you ignore the sun, I think it's possible to do it with balls...

 

http://230nsc1.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/solar/sizes.html#c3

 

 

They do it here, using a bowling ball sized object as the sun and scaling everything to that..

http://www.noao.edu/education/peppercorn/pcmain.html

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