Class 11 used toilet paper and fruit to represent the solar system to understand the enormous distances between the sun and the planets. The fruit helped us to understand how the size of the planets also varies so much. For example, Jupiter was represented by a watermelon compared to Pluto which was a tiny blueberry. Earth and Venus are similar in size so we used an apple.

The scale used for the toilet paper was; 1 sheet of toilet paper represented 25 million km in space. We used in total 236 pieces and Leah worked out the total distance!

We were amazed at the size of our universe!