Activity 1: Solar System Model (30 minutes) Hands-on Activity : Students will create a model of the solar system using Styrofoam balls, paint, and string. Assign each student or group a planet to ...

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model.We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

(If we were making a scale model of the solar system, it would not be the same size of the peppercorn sun, but it would be practically invisible to the naked eye: 0.0002 inch, or 0.005 millimeter ...

To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.