Celebrate World Space Week from 4th October at home or in school with this fun and engaging worksheet.

The aim is to create scale drawings of the planets in our solar system to fit on an A3 piece of paper.

The Sun is scaled down to have a diameter of 282 cm, and from here, learners will use multiplicative relationships to discover the relative size of each of the 8 planets and construct them to scale using a compass. The worksheet is structured to guide students through the process and to encourage them to consider how scales work whilst hoping to inspire some awe and wonder and the universe we journey through.