THE SOLAR SYSTEM DISCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Put the celestial bodies in the right place, following the color of the frames.
D I D Y O U K N OW T H AT…
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MERCURY
VENUS
EARTH
MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS
NEPTUNE
PLUTO
The Solar System is formed by celestial bodies: planets, satellites, comets, asteroids and meteoroids that orbit around the Sun at different distances and speed.
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THE SOLAR SYSTEM DISCOVER THE SOLAR SYSTEM. Put the celestial bodies in the right place, following the color of the frames.
D I D Y O U K N OW T H AT…
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MERCURY
VENUS
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MARS
JUPITER
SATURN
URANUS
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PLUTO
The Solar System is formed by celestial bodies: planets, satellites, comets, asteroids and meteoroids that orbit around the Sun at different distances and speed.
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THE PLANETS IN SIZE ORDER PLANETS ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER: FOR EXAMPLE, IN SIZE. TO UNDERSTAND THIS BETTER, LET’S TRY AND COMPARE THE PLANETS WITH THESE FRUITS! Place the planets in the frames according to their size. Use the color of the frames as a guideline. Watermelon Melon Apple Clementine Cherry Blackberry
Blueberry Pepper grain
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Earth Uranus Neptune Saturn Jupiter
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Now compare them: Which one is bigger between Neptune and Mars? Between Saturn and Uranus? Between Earth and Mercury?
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THE PLANETS IN SIZE ORDER PLANETS ARE VERY DIFFERENT FROM ONE ANOTHER: FOR EXAMPLE, IN SIZE. TO UNDERSTAND THIS BETTER, LET’S TRY AND COMPARE THE PLANETS WITH THESE FRUITS! Place the planets in the frames according to their size. Use the color of the frames as a guideline. Watermelon Melon Apple Clementine Cherry Blackberry
Blueberry Pepper grain
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Earth Uranus Neptune Saturn Jupiter
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Now compare them: Which one is bigger between Neptune and Mars? Between Saturn and Uranus? Between Earth and Mercury?
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EARTH, OUR PLANET DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE ONLY PLANET WITH LIQUID WATER? OUR EARTH! Color the white spaces in blue: those are our seas and oceans!
THE DANCE OF EARTH DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EARTH ORBITS ITSELF AND AROUND THE SUN? Let’s try to do the same! You can do this outside as well and you can use chalk to draw the circle, instead of the string.
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Get a string and a ball. Place the ball at the center of the room. Make a big circle around it using the string.
Make a complete turn on yourself in the direction indicated by the arrow in the drawing (anticlockwise).
Now count out loud: how many turns on yourself do you have to make to complete a whole circle around the ball? Write it down here. Earth’s position in the Solar System.
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Walk over the string following its trajectory whilst keeping on turning on yourself. At each completed circle, move on along the string.
D I D YOU KN OW T H AT … The Earth takes 365 days to complete a full circle around the Sun.
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EARTH, OUR PLANET DO YOU KNOW WHICH ONE IS THE ONLY PLANET WITH LIQUID WATER? OUR EARTH! Color the white spaces in blue: those are our seas and oceans!
THE DANCE OF EARTH DID YOU KNOW THAT THE EARTH ORBITS ITSELF AND AROUND THE SUN? Let’s try to do the same! You can do this outside as well and you can use chalk to draw the circle, instead of the string.
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Get a string and a ball. Place the ball at the center of the room. Make a big circle around it using the string.
Make a complete turn on yourself in the direction indicated by the arrow in the drawing (anticlockwise).
Now count out loud: how many turns on yourself do you have to make to complete a whole circle around the ball? Write it down here. Earth’s position in the Solar System.
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Walk over the string following its trajectory whilst keeping on turning on yourself. At each completed circle, move on along the string.
D I D YOU KN OW T H AT … The Earth takes 365 days to complete a full circle around the Sun.
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MAN EXPLORES THE MOON
THE FRIENDSHIP SUN-EARTH-MOON
DRESS THE ASTRONAUT SO THAT HE’S READY TO EMBARK ON HIS EXPEDITION TO THE MOON.
MAKE THE EARTH ORBIT AROUND THE SUN AND THE MOON AROUND THE EARTH! 1. Cut out the drawings of the Sun, Earth and Moon below, following the dotted lines. (The Earth and the Moon need to be cut out with their rotation radius) 2. Get two paper fasteners and make small holes through the black dots. 3. Pin the Sun and the Earth with a fastener: now the Earth can rotate around the Sun! 4. Pin the Earth and the Moon: now the Moon can orbit around the Earth!
Put the stickers on the astronaut, checking shape and color like in the example.
D I D Y O U K N OW TH AT … On the 20th July 1969 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on on the Moon during their mission Apollo 11.
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MAN EXPLORES THE MOON
THE FRIENDSHIP SUN-EARTH-MOON
DRESS THE ASTRONAUT SO THAT HE’S READY TO EMBARK ON HIS EXPEDITION TO THE MOON.
MAKE THE EARTH ORBIT AROUND THE SUN AND THE MOON AROUND THE EARTH! 1. Cut out the drawings of the Sun, Earth and Moon below, following the dotted lines. (The Earth and the Moon need to be cut out with their rotation radius) 2. Get two paper fasteners and make small holes through the black dots. 3. Pin the Sun and the Earth with a fastener: now the Earth can rotate around the Sun! 4. Pin the Earth and the Moon: now the Moon can orbit around the Earth!
Put the stickers on the astronaut, checking shape and color like in the example.
D I D Y O U K N OW TH AT … On the 20th July 1969 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on on the Moon during their mission Apollo 11.
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THE LUNAR BASE SCIENTISTS ARE STUDYING HOW TO GROW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ON THE MOON, TO HELP ASTRONAUTS DURING THEIR MISSIONS. Count how many fruits and vegetables have ripened in the greenhouse. Write the numbers by tracing the dots from the red one to the blue. Strawberries
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THE LUNAR BASE SCIENTISTS ARE STUDYING HOW TO GROW FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ON THE MOON, TO HELP ASTRONAUTS DURING THEIR MISSIONS. Count how many fruits and vegetables have ripened in the greenhouse. Write the numbers by tracing the dots from the red one to the blue. Strawberries
Salad
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MARS, THE RED PLANET
FINDING THE MARTIAN ROCK
MARS IS VERY BRIGHT AND IT HAS A DISTINCTIVE RED COLOR!
FIND THE ROUTE!
Stain your fingers with red and yellow paint, or with some turmeric powder. Then color Mars like in the example.
Guide the robot Rover to the discovery of the tallest volcano in Mars!
DID Y O U KN OW THAT…
Mars’s position in the Solar System.
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Mars hosts the biggest volcano in the Solar System; it’s called Olympus Mons and it rises over 15 miles (25 km) high above the surface of the planet!
Olympus Mons
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MARS, THE RED PLANET
FINDING THE MARTIAN ROCK
MARS IS VERY BRIGHT AND IT HAS A DISTINCTIVE RED COLOR!
FIND THE ROUTE!
Stain your fingers with red and yellow paint, or with some turmeric powder. Then color Mars like in the example.
Guide the robot Rover to the discovery of the tallest volcano in Mars!
DID Y O U KN OW THAT…
Mars’s position in the Solar System.
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Mars hosts the biggest volcano in the Solar System; it’s called Olympus Mons and it rises over 15 miles (25 km) high above the surface of the planet!
Olympus Mons
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THE ASTEROIDS BELT
THE COMET’S TAIL
BEYOND MARS THERE IS A BELT MADE OF MILLIONS OF ASTEROIDS.
COMETS HAVE LONG, GLEAMING TAILS!
Take an old toothbrush and a bit of white paint. Dip the toothbrush in the paint and use your finger to spray lots of tiny white spots in the gap between Mars and Jupiter to recreate the asteroid belt.
Use the stickers to complete the tail of each comet, like in the example. Pay attention to their shape.
DID YO U K NOW THAT… Asteroids are fragments of rock that are still orbiting long after the Solar System was formed.
Asteroids
Jupiter
Mars
D I D YOU KN OW T H AT … Comets form at the far ends of the Solar System, where it’s very cold. They are balls of icy gas, but when they get close to the Sun, the gas comes out and wraps them in a beautiful bright glow.
THE ASTEROIDS BELT
THE COMET’S TAIL
BEYOND MARS THERE IS A BELT MADE OF MILLIONS OF ASTEROIDS.
COMETS HAVE LONG, GLEAMING TAILS!
Take an old toothbrush and a bit of white paint. Dip the toothbrush in the paint and use your finger to spray lots of tiny white spots in the gap between Mars and Jupiter to recreate the asteroid belt.
Use the stickers to complete the tail of each comet, like in the example. Pay attention to their shape.
DID YO U K NOW THAT… Asteroids are fragments of rock that are still orbiting long after the Solar System was formed.
Asteroids
Jupiter
Mars
D I D YOU KN OW T H AT … Comets form at the far ends of the Solar System, where it’s very cold. They are balls of icy gas, but when they get close to the Sun, the gas comes out and wraps them in a beautiful bright glow.
JUPITER, THE GIANT
JUPITER’S MOONS
JUPITER IS A VERY BIG PLANET, MADE ENTIRELY OF GAS.
SO MANY LINES! THEY ARE THE ORBITS OF SOME OF JUPITER’S SATELLITES.
Use the stickers to complete the striped picture of Jupiter! Dip the tip of a cotton bud in paint and press it on the lines below many times, to trace some of Jupiter’s moons.
Jupiter’s position in the Solar System.
DI D YOU K NOW THAT… Jupiter is quite a fast planet: it takes just 10 hours to orbit itself.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jupiter has 60 moons!
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JUPITER, THE GIANT
JUPITER’S MOONS
JUPITER IS A VERY BIG PLANET, MADE ENTIRELY OF GAS.
SO MANY LINES! THEY ARE THE ORBITS OF SOME OF JUPITER’S SATELLITES.
Use the stickers to complete the striped picture of Jupiter! Dip the tip of a cotton bud in paint and press it on the lines below many times, to trace some of Jupiter’s moons.
Jupiter’s position in the Solar System.
DI D YOU K NOW THAT… Jupiter is quite a fast planet: it takes just 10 hours to orbit itself.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT… Jupiter has 60 moons!
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SATURN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS
THE FOUR GREAT ASTEROIDS
JOIN THE DOTS AND COMPLETE THE ASTEROIDS’ RINGS.
SATURN IS SURROUNDED BY ASTEROIDS OF DIFFERENT SIZES!
Then use a pencil to color the missing part of the rings,according to the colors in the drawing: if you press the pencil hard, you will obtain a darker grey, whereas if you press it lightly you will have a lighter grey.
Complete the block of asteroids below, using the paint.
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• Take some grey paint, an earbud and a toothpick.
• Dip your finger in the grey paint and make some patches: these will be the big asteroids.
• Use the tip of the earbud to make smaller patches that will be the mediumsized asteroids.
• Then use the toothpick to create the smallest spots: these are the smallest asteroids.
DID Y O U K NOW THAT… Saturn’s position in the Solar System.
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Saturn’s rings are made of millions of small bodies that orbit around it, forming flat rings. On these rings there are 82 orbiting moons!
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SATURN, THE LORD OF THE RINGS
THE FOUR GREAT ASTEROIDS
JOIN THE DOTS AND COMPLETE THE ASTEROIDS’ RINGS.
SATURN IS SURROUNDED BY ASTEROIDS OF DIFFERENT SIZES!
Then use a pencil to color the missing part of the rings,according to the colors in the drawing: if you press the pencil hard, you will obtain a darker grey, whereas if you press it lightly you will have a lighter grey.
Complete the block of asteroids below, using the paint.
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• Take some grey paint, an earbud and a toothpick.
• Dip your finger in the grey paint and make some patches: these will be the big asteroids.
• Use the tip of the earbud to make smaller patches that will be the mediumsized asteroids.
• Then use the toothpick to create the smallest spots: these are the smallest asteroids.
DID Y O U K NOW THAT… Saturn’s position in the Solar System.
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Saturn’s rings are made of millions of small bodies that orbit around it, forming flat rings. On these rings there are 82 orbiting moons!
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SPACE TELESCOPES
LET’S BUILD A ROCKET!
COMPLETE THE TELESCOPES: THEY WILL HELP YOU OBSERVE EVEN THE MOST REMOTE PLANETS OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS TO BUILD YOUR ROCKET. You need: 1 toilet paper cardboard roll, paint, cardboard sheet, 3 wooden pegs, a couple of paint brushes and some orange tissue paper.
Carefully study the shadows below and place the correct sticker on each one.
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COROT
HUBBLE
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Use the paint to color the cardboard roll.
Decorate it with the stickers that you find at the end of the book.
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Put the yellow sticker from the book on the cardboard sheet and create a cone.
Glue the cone inside one of the rims of the cardboard roll.
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Attach the pegs on the other rim (they will be your engines) and use the tissue paper to simulate the fire coming out of them.
… now you’re ready for many fantastic space adventures!
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SPACE TELESCOPES
LET’S BUILD A ROCKET!
COMPLETE THE TELESCOPES: THEY WILL HELP YOU OBSERVE EVEN THE MOST REMOTE PLANETS OUTSIDE THE SOLAR SYSTEM.
HERE ARE THE INSTRUCTIONS TO BUILD YOUR ROCKET. You need: 1 toilet paper cardboard roll, paint, cardboard sheet, 3 wooden pegs, a couple of paint brushes and some orange tissue paper.
Carefully study the shadows below and place the correct sticker on each one.
TESS GAIA
COROT
HUBBLE
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Use the paint to color the cardboard roll.
Decorate it with the stickers that you find at the end of the book.
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Put the yellow sticker from the book on the cardboard sheet and create a cone.
Glue the cone inside one of the rims of the cardboard roll.
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Attach the pegs on the other rim (they will be your engines) and use the tissue paper to simulate the fire coming out of them.
… now you’re ready for many fantastic space adventures!
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