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    • Year 7 Science
    • Year 8 Science
      • 8A Food and nutrition
      • 8B Plants and their reproduction (Earthshot)
      • 8C Breathing and respiration
      • 8D Unicellular organisms
      • 8E Combustion (Earthshot)
      • 8F The periodic table
      • 8G Metals and their uses
      • 8H Rocks
      • 8I Fluids
      • 8J Light
      • 8K Energy transfers (Earthshot)
      • 8L Earth and space
        • 8La The Moon and Solar System
        • 8Lb Seasons
        • 8Lc Magnetic Earth
        • 8Ld Gravity in space
        • 8Le Beyond the Solar System
  • Year 8 Science
  • 8L Earth and space
  • 8La The Moon and Solar System

8La The Moon and Solar System

  • 8La1 The Moon slides JBR.pptx2mb
  • 8La1 The Moon DCN.pptx3mb
  • 8La Phases of the Moon Twinkl.pdf


8La1 Lockdown practicals

To do the mini practicals in 8La1 you will need:

  • 8 small pieces of scrap paper (playing card ish size to draw moon shapes on & put in order)
  • 3 balls of different sizes to represent the Sun, Earth & Moon
  • A light coloured ball eg table tennis ball that you can colour in one half of
  • A torch (phone torch is fine)

Worksheets for lesson 8La1

  • 8La1 Blank eclipse diagrams JBR.docx
  • 8la4_phases_of_the_moon.pdf
  • 8La1 HW Phases of Moon diary.pdf
  • Triumph as space probe reaches Mercury (The Day News Article)
  • The scientists searching for life on Jupiter
  • 8La2 Models of the Solar System slides JBR.pptx6mb
  • 8La2 Models of the Solar System DCN.pptx6mb


Worksheet for lesson 8La2

  • 8La2 Planets Heliocentric diagrams JBR.docx

All 8La worksheets

  • 8La1 Blank eclipse diagrams JBR.docx
  • 8la1_gathering_the_evidence.pdf
  • 8La2 Planets Heliocentric diagrams JBR.docx
  • 8la2_astronauts_or_probes.pdf
  • 8la3_solar_system_questions.pdf
  • 8la4_phases_of_the_moon.pdf
  • 8la5_measuring_the_earth.pdf
  • 8la6_cassini_and_huygens.pdf
  • 8la7_moon_origins.pdf


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