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Stars and Planets

Making & Using a Planisphere

Make a planisphere
You can print templates and instructions from here.
https://www.instructables.com/Make-Your-Own-Planisphere/

Planisphere

How to use a Planisphere

Making Homemade Planetarium / Telescope

You can either make a planetarium or telescope

You will need:

How to make:

Scale Our Solar System

For this activity I created planet fact cards (see attached) I printed these out (4 to and A4 Page) and stuck them on some A5 Card with a scale planet on it.

Finding the scale planets is the hard bit. If you use a large beach ball for the sun then you need some very small bits for Mercury and Mars ( I used the coloured sugar for decorating cakes)

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