We started Apologia's Astronomy book this past week. We will probably go well into the summer to finish this unit, but hopefully that will be the best time to study the stars. As an introduction, we were to make a "to scale" solar system. They gave us the dimensions for each planet. We used balloons and wadded up pieces of paper to get them all to scale. Some of the planets are hard to see in the picture, so I have labeled them for you.
I love it! What great perspective the model gives your children! We are about halfway through Apologia Astronomy right now. The kids are really enjoying it....hope you all do too:)
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