FUN ACTIVITIES
1. Bike Challenge - tour the Solar system on your bike (and send us some photos!)
2. Use the Lethbridge Solar System model as a knowledge element towards earning the Scouts Canada Astronomy badge.
3. Run a half marathon from the Sun to Neptune (21 km., using major roadways), a full marathon (to Neptune and back), or a 10km. run from the Sun to Jupiter and back.
4. One of our members was teaching a family member to drive - and what better lesson than to tour our Solar System?
CHALLENGE QUESTIONS
Junior Level:
1. If the clocktower dome is the Sun, which side of the Earth model is “day time” and which side is “night time”?
2. Which way is the Earth spinning?
3. Imagine you are a very tiny person standing somewhere on the Earth model. Where would you have to be to see the morning sunrise?
4. The Moon model is 5' away from the Earth model. The real Moon travels (“orbits”) in a big circle around the Earth. As it orbits, we see different Moon “phases” from the Earth.
What phase is the Moon in the Solar System Model? Where would the Moon model have to be placed to show a Full Moon?
Intermediate Level:
1. Where would you be standing on the Earth model at midnight?
2. Draw a picture of the night sky at midnight, showing where the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn would be, based on their locations in the Lethbridge Solar System model hint- look at the map here.
3. In the real solar system, the planets orbit around the Sun in big circles. In the Lethbridge Solar System Model, if the Earth moved along its orbit, it would come back to the same location after one year. Where would the Mars model be located, one Earth-year from now? What about Jupiter?
4. Where would the Moon be located during a total solar eclipse?
Advanced Level
1. The James Webb Space Telescope is located at a point called “Lagrange 2", or L2. Where would L2 be located in the Lethbridge Solar System Model? Where would “Lagrange 1" (L1) be located?
2. Why is L2 a good place to put the James Webb Space Telescope?
3. Where would the Kuiper belt and the Asteroid belt be located?
4. How far away would the nearest star be, at the scale of the Lethbridge Solar System Model?
1. If the clocktower dome is the Sun, which side of the Earth model is “day time” and which side is “night time”?
2. Which way is the Earth spinning?
3. Imagine you are a very tiny person standing somewhere on the Earth model. Where would you have to be to see the morning sunrise?
4. The Moon model is 5' away from the Earth model. The real Moon travels (“orbits”) in a big circle around the Earth. As it orbits, we see different Moon “phases” from the Earth.
What phase is the Moon in the Solar System Model? Where would the Moon model have to be placed to show a Full Moon?
Intermediate Level:
1. Where would you be standing on the Earth model at midnight?
2. Draw a picture of the night sky at midnight, showing where the Moon, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn would be, based on their locations in the Lethbridge Solar System model hint- look at the map here.
3. In the real solar system, the planets orbit around the Sun in big circles. In the Lethbridge Solar System Model, if the Earth moved along its orbit, it would come back to the same location after one year. Where would the Mars model be located, one Earth-year from now? What about Jupiter?
4. Where would the Moon be located during a total solar eclipse?
Advanced Level
1. The James Webb Space Telescope is located at a point called “Lagrange 2", or L2. Where would L2 be located in the Lethbridge Solar System Model? Where would “Lagrange 1" (L1) be located?
2. Why is L2 a good place to put the James Webb Space Telescope?
3. Where would the Kuiper belt and the Asteroid belt be located?
4. How far away would the nearest star be, at the scale of the Lethbridge Solar System Model?