Nathan's Big Adventure to Mt John Observatory

Room 2's, Space Inquiry Questions-

Here are the Questions Room 2 will be focusing on:

• What are planets made of ?
• Why do planets have different patterns and colours from space?
• Why is Pluto is not consider as a planet?
• How did Asteroids get their names?

Below is a powerpoint demonstrating our process to get to these questions;

If I Was a NASA Astronaut

Ethan - What is a comet?

Ethan informed me that a comet is a small ball of rock and ice. The comet's rock and ice melts when it come near the sun causing bright tail. A comet orbits the sun in space.

Tim's Investigation-Asteroids

Asteroids are made of rocks and metals.When an asteroid breaks free of its orbit it might hit a planet or a moon.

When an asteroids break from their orbit it called a "meteoroid". We know that meteorites have hit our own moon which created craters.

Jordan's Information about Planet Venus

Jordan's - Information about planet Venus from chris Thurlow on Vimeo.

Burnham School Room 2- Star Treking Through the Universe

Room 2 have been investigating-

What is the Milky Way?

• It's a galaxy made up of a whole group of stars.

What we have learnt about the the Milky Way:

• Our galaxy is called the Milky way it has spirals or arms.
• There are other galaxies but the Milky Way has the Sun, Earth and Moon.
• The Milky way is the only galaxy that can be seen by the naked eye.
• Our Sun in so small in the Milky Way it is like a grain of sand on a large beach.