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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.