Students make a distance-scale solar system model with toilet paper.
The student will draw and describe one planetary object. The student will observe the relative distance between planets. Interplanetary travel is extremely difficult due to the almost unimaginable distances between the planets in our solar system. Voyager II, traveling at nearly 50,000 mph took 12 years to reach the planet Neptune. We can make a scale model of the distances between the planets using almost anything as our reference.