My fifth grader has to make a solar system model with a moving part, any ideas?
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I made one when I was a kid with craft rings and styrofoam balls. The balls would slide around the rings, and the rings were suspended on strings and would move as well.
Wow!
That's a cruel and unusual punishment!
go to a rug shop they have built model
I would suggest making a model solar system with moving parts so your kid doesn't fail. Well that was simple enough.
You could put the planets on coat hangers and somehow make the middle of the hanger abe to spin around? Sounds hard though. Good Luck!
Im not sure what you mean by moving part. Do you mean that the planets have to spin around the sun? I used wire coat hangers & strofoam balls for mine (but that was 15 yrs ago)
Make everything stationary. Then add a pole extending from the top of the sun, and attach a string on top with a little rock on it. Then, swing the 'comet' around it, and eventually the comet will hit a planet.
block of wood with bike tire mounted on it. with foam put sun in mmiddle. then the planets spin around it. if you dont hav a tire an old bok fan would be cool(literaly) also. just take cage thing off and use blades like tire spokes. also walmart i think sells kits for making theese type of things
go to a craft store, you can get the internal workings of a clock. Use the hands for the planets/moons. I hope this helps.
Go to Walmart or a hobby/craft store and get a kit.
For real, they have the WHOLE KIT for sale now! It's so unfair! I had to cut out styrofoam circles myself and make up arms out of wire coathangers and get my dad to help me jury-rig the whole thing together.
I guess they mean, like, put the Sun in the center on, like, a piece of fishing line, and put the other pieces around it.
If you don't want Styrofoam balls, try Christmas-tree balls or even pieces of paper suspended from a mobile.
Man, those models.
Will they ever stop with the solar system models?
You could try building something like this with hangars and styrofoam spheres. Bend each hangar around a pole so that you can revolve each planet.
http://www.sciencefirst.com/pctr/sol100.
you can go to your local beauty shop and get one of those Styrofoam head they use to put wigs on.I bet if you cut it just right it will work.Good luck
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Have all the "planets" sit on a table. The earth could be an orange or a styrofoam ball. Bend a piece of wire at a right angle and bend the tip that is not inserted in the orange/styrofoam up about one inch in. Put a ping pong ball or another small styrofoam ball about the size of a ping pong ball on the bent up piece representing the moon. You could marker one half black. If your child understands how the moon rotates, he/she can demonstrate the cycle.
Have fun!
Just paint a golf ball and attach it to a moter so it rotates.
How about this: get some nice cardboard. Cut out circles with the following diameters:
4 inches
7.23 inches
10 inches
15.24 inches
Punch a hole in the center of each circle, and put a paper clip through the hole to connect them all together. Near the edge of the 4 inch one, draw a tiny picture of the planet Mercury.
Near the edge of the 7 inch one, a tiny picture of Venus, Earth on the 10 inch one and Mars on the 15 inch one.
So now, you have a scale model of the inner solar system. You can see that no matter where the Earth is, Venus and Mercury are always near the Sun. You can measure the greatest angle between Venus and the Sun---very similar to the real sky after sunset, nowdays. Mars is often in the opposite direction from the Sun. This may be lesson enough for 5th grade.
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