Science Two Week Four

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  1. What did you do in lab today? Did a mini scale of planets in relations to the sun

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  11. What was the big question? What does a scale model of our solar system look like? a very small reduced version of the solar system and even then our tiny scale spread way outside the classroom. ​
  12. What did you learn in Thursday’s discussion? did not attend discussion this weel ​
  13. Read the online textbook, chapter 1: https://pressbooks.uiowa.edu/methodsii/chapter/earth/Links to an external site.​
  1. What did you learn? there is a distance of 9 million years between the creation oaf earth and the big bang theory ​
  2. What was most helpful? the pictures of the size comparison of the planets. ​
  3. What do you need more information on? how the sun is considered an average sized star​

5. What questions, concerns, and/or comments do you have?none

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