This week we were challenged to use a compass and toilet paper to make a scaled down version of our solar system. We had a table on the board showing the planets, the distance between the planets and the sun and the size of the planets. We went in table groups to decide our scales and some of us started using the compass to create the planets. My groups scale for the distance between the planets and the sun was 1 toilet roll square:100 million km and the scale for the planet size was 1cm:20,000km. At times I felt that I was at the bottom of the learning pit but at the end I was helping people out.
Thomas.W