Transcript My Favorite Planet:

My Book About Space
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We all live on Earth. It is like
a big, round ball. And it is
spinning. This is hard to
believe because we do not
feel any motion. Everything
stays in place because the
Earth pulls everything to
itself. This pull is called
GRAVITY. The Earth always
spins at the same speed
(about 1000 miles per hour!).
The Earth spins around one
time, or makes one full
rotation, in 24 hours.
Light from the sun falls on one
half of the spinning Earth. This
half has DAY. The other, darker
half has NIGHT. As the Earth
spins, we move through the
light, into the darkness, and
back again. This makes day and
night. Half of the Earth is always
in the light and half of the Earth
is always in the dark. The Earth
is always spinning and that is
why it is always changing.
Information retrieved from http://oncampus.richmond.edu/academics/education/projects/webunits/cycles /
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LET’S TAKE A LOOK AT OUR SOLAR SYSTEM
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My favorite planet is the
the solar system.
planet in
My planet
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My favorite planet is about
kilometers away from the sun.
Did you know: The Sun is a star. Stars are giant fire balls of gas.
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On my favorite planet, the length of
a day is:
days
hours
minutes
seconds
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On my favorite planet, I weigh…
lbs.
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