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Models of The Solar System

The document discusses different models of the solar system over time, starting with Ptolemy's geocentric model from ancient Greece, followed by Copernicus' heliocentric model, and then Kepler's elliptical model. It also describes how modern astronomers use spacecraft and powerful telescopes to observe the solar system, unlike early astronomers who could only use their eyes to observe the sun, moon, and a few planets. Students are tasked with learning about these models of the solar system and researching facts about each planet.

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Models of The Solar System

The document discusses different models of the solar system over time, starting with Ptolemy's geocentric model from ancient Greece, followed by Copernicus' heliocentric model, and then Kepler's elliptical model. It also describes how modern astronomers use spacecraft and powerful telescopes to observe the solar system, unlike early astronomers who could only use their eyes to observe the sun, moon, and a few planets. Students are tasked with learning about these models of the solar system and researching facts about each planet.

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Earth and Space Science

Welcome Year 8
Write down words that this video makes you think..

Massive Old Far away


L1. Models of the Solar
System
Objectives
• Recall the modern day solar system 
• Describe some ways of investigating the planets  
• Compare different models of the Solar System 
Starter:

Can you name the planets in order?


Talk to your partner and see.

Do you have a way of remembering them?


Task:
1. Copy this diagram into ? ? ? ?
your books.
2. Using your device name
each planet.
3. Research 3 facts about
each planet with your
partner, you have 10
minutes so share the ? ? ? ? ?
work!
4. Add these facts to your
diagrams.
How did you do?
Add some of your classes facts to this screen.
DIFFERENT MODELS OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM
An astronomer is someone that investigates space.

What do modern astronomers use to observe the solar system?


Modern astronomers use spacecraft and powerful telescopes to observe
and explore the Solar System.

How did early astronomers observe space?


Their eyes! They could only observe the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus,
Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. This was enough for them to start providing
models of how they thought the Solar System was laid out.
Task: Watch the video and answer
Models of the solar system the following key questions.

1) Describe the model the


ancient Greeks used to explain
the rise and fall of the Sun.
2) Why did this model not work?
3) Describe Copernicus’s model
from the 1600’s.
4) Write down two of the things
that Galileo is famed for.
5) Why are models so important
for scientists?
PTOLEMY’S MODEL (Egypt, 90-168AD)

What can you see in this model?


Earth at the centre of the system.

Sun, Moon and planets move in circles around the


Earth.

This seemed to explain what could be observed from


Earth and was the dominant model of how the Solar
System worked for 1500 years.
COPERNICUS’ MODEL
(Poland, 1473-1543)
What can you see in this model? What was different
from the last?

Sun at centre of system.

Earth and other planets move in circles around the Sun.

The Moon moves in circles around the Earth.

This model agreed with the more accurate


observations made with later astronomers with
telescopes (like Galileo) but still didn’t explain some
observations made.
KEPLER’S MODEL (Germany 1571-1630)
What can you see in this model? What was different from the last?

Sun at centre of system.

Earth and the other planets move around the Sun in ELLIPSES (squashed circles).

Most planets have orbiting moons.

This is still the dominant model today.


COMPARING MODELS
Talk with your partner and summarise the differences. Make each sentence a comparison
Eg. Kepler’s model has the sun in the middle however Copernicus …..

COPERNICUS’ MODEL KEPLER’S MODEL


PTOLEMY’S MODEL
Recap Starter: Whiteboard Volunteers!

Volunteer 1: Sketch the ancient greek model of the solar system on the LH board

Volunteer 2: Sketch Copernicus’s model of the solar system on the RH board

Volunteer 3: Adapt the Copernicus model to the model that we know today
Task: Complete 8La -3 Solar System Questions
SPACECRAFT
Most information we have about the Solar System has
come from the use of TELESCOPES.

But SPACE PROBES have also sent us images of the


Sun, Moon and most of the planets. Probes have even
brought back rock samples from the Moon.

The first probe landed on the moon in 1959.


Places to for additional information
For extra help:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8c9q6f

Extension material:

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/solar-system/our-solar-system/overview/

https://www.planetary.org/articles/solar-system-history-101

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