OUR SOLAR SYSTEM

EDU 697 – A Project Approach

Sandra Allison

Ashford University

March 28, 2020

 PROJECT OVERVIEW

Space exploration is always reaching new heights, with missions to Mars

and plans to land a probe on a comet after a 10-year journey through the
solar system currently under way.

The posters of the solar system are great for quickly creating a colorful display for your
usage. The URL of the posters is
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/2284/our-solar-system-poster-version-b/
 FACTS FOR YOUR RESEARCH

A Summary of the research The sun is in the

I have done is: center of all
• Mercury is the smallest and orbits
innermost planet in the Solar
System.
There are
• Venus is the second planet from
the Sun.
smaller planets
•
closer to the sun
Earth is the third planet from
the Sun and the only
astronomical object known to There is a mix of
harbor life. planet sizes
• Mars is the fourth planet from further away
the Sun and the second-smallest
planet in the Solar System after
Mercury.
• Jupiter is the fifth planet from
the Sun and the largest in the
Solar System.
• Saturn is the only planet of the
Solar System that is less dense
than water—about 30% less.
• Uranus is the seventh planet
from the Sun
 VARIABLES: FOR YOUR RESEARCH
 Controlled variables: These are the things that are kept the same throughout your experiments.
 Independent variable: The one variable that you purposely change and test.
 Dependent variable: The measure of change observed because of the independent variable. It is
important to decide how you are going to measure the change.

PLANET MASS PERIOD OF ROTATION DISTANCE FROM THE SUN

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
 WORKS CITED
https://www.theguardian.com/teacher-network/teacher-blog/2014/sep/29/how-to-teach-spac
e-planets-astronomy-solar-system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/