-Planets

Use this page to help with SLO 6 - The planets in the solar system and retrograde motion.

Task - using the resources here, complete the questions in the solar system PDF below. An efficient way to do it would be to form a group, and each person find out about 2 or 3 of the planets, and then you can swap notes. You may do this as an individual exercise if you wish.



You can use the following sources to help you, or you can research on line. This is a simple summary of the planets.





[|Pluto - dwarf planet]

This link shows the NASA solar system lithographs, which have an amazing array of information and also fabulous colour images [|Nasa solar system lithographs] Hint for using the lithographs - in some of the information sheets there is a lot of information. Once you have open an info sheet, you can use command f to 'find' a term you are looking for, and then read the information around it to take the meaning of the term

[|Nasa solar system info]

Here are some other useful charts on the planets

[|an explanation of magnetic fields]