Natural Sciences and TechnologyGrade 5

Term 4: Planet Earth and BeyondPlanet Earth

(PPT 2)

Topic 1 Planet Earth

The earth moves

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

The solar system

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

Make Very Easy Mash. Just Squash Up New Potatoes.

Remember the order of the planets

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

Make – MercuryVery – VenusEasy – EarthMash – Mars

Just - Jupiter Squash – Saturn

Up - Uranus New Potatoes – Neptune

The sun

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

•It is our closest star.•It is a very big star.•It is very hot.•It is the largest object in our solar system.•All the planets revolve around the sun.•Dark spots on the sun are called sunspots.

Planet earth

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

•Third planet from the Sun•Round like a ball / sphere•A thin layer of air around it•From Earth, we can see the sun, moon and stars.

Interesting facts about earth

Gr 5 Natural Sciences and Technology – Term 4, Topic 1

•Earth is about 5 billion years old.

•The word “Earth” means soil / ground.

•The earth has water in all three phases:

solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas (clouds)

•Earth is the only known planet to support life.

• 70% of earth is just water.