Any one know where to get directions to build the old school project A solar sytem model with styrafoam balls?

Question

Rember the one with all the planets hanging from the top of the box and you painted the box black on the inside. I forget how to do it and I want my son to be able to do it like I did when I was young.Help!!!!

Answer 1

Try the first source below. For a more advanced approach, see the second.

Answer 2

the trick will be pressenting it in an interesting way..
perhaps add a good poster with extra explainations

I suggest a poster that says something like THE PALE BLUE DOT... NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!!!

-mercury is small, it has alot of HELIUM in its atmosphere and is superhot in the day and super col at night
-venus, has acid rain... litterally... cloudy
both mercury and venus are almost locked so that they take months to turn and so dont have a day like us

EARTH...ahhhh!!!! ....terra firms
in the goldilocks place ...not too hopt not too cold... just right
it has a strong magnetic field which helps keep the air from blowing away by the salar winds... it has a non magnetic but large moon that is great for tides and keeps the earth from wobbling.... almost like it was designed by a really smart designer eh? Earth is the olny planet with a thick atmosphere where you could both breath and see the sun moon and stars and is as if it was a plent made for life AND the discovery and wonder about the rest of the universe by God himself!!!!!

Mars? two little potato shapes moons and harly enough water for a sluppy... i woundt wanna live there way too cold and dark
bring your dustbuster and water and food and air if you go there

Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune... well these spin like the dickes .. a Jupiter day is like 12 hours... the winds are over 1000mph with Neptune clocking at 1700mph.... it;ll blow you socks off... and tornados big enough to suck up the state of Ohio
These are great planets to have to sweep the stray commets and asteroids form the sky to keep em from hitting us!!! OUCH

pluto... alas poor... planet non grata!!! no one considers pluto a planet anymore... so if you old directions say.. pluto as they say in NY FOGETABOUTIT... pluto is no longer a planet... and its 'moon' also potao shapes .. it more like a iced potato... than a moon


If you had a teacup which represented the orbit of pluto, the rest of the gaaxy would be the size of NORTH AMERICA
and we have a small galaxy HOWS ABOUT PUTTIN A TEACUP on a map of North america with that explaination... coolness?
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The Privileged Planet is a great DVD

Answer 3

There is a good tutorial on this here: http://www.kolias.com/education/solarsystem.htm