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Sample files from St. Joseph's Primary, Kelty

Planets
 
Starter file
Sample of child's work

 

 

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starter

 

 

 

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sample

In this example two super groupers have been created to host the pupils' selections of planets.

For effect, the background has been altered to black.

If the sound option is switched on it is interesting to play with the voices to select one appropriate to a Space theme. Have a go by choosing this route:

 

You might want to extend this exercise by hyperlinking to the Nine Planets or the NASA website.

One very good website which is designed to be interactive is http://www.kidsastronomy.com/

 

 

The information was taken from class posters, but an extension would be to involve the pupils in their own research and to rewrite for inclusion in the Writing View as shown opposite.

Notice the addition of Quaoar, the tenth planet, discovered just at the time the class were involved in researching this topic. The child creating this file added the image to represent Quaoar.

Since the background is black the text colour has been altered to white.

Additional information was entered in the Writing View, as follows:
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