Day & Night
True or False: American astronauts were the first to land on Mars.
False: no humans have stepped foot on Mars yet.
This is the word for the Earth spinning around itself on its axis.
What is rotation?
What galaxy to we reside in?
The Milky Way
True or false: The Sun is considered a star.
True! The Sun is a star. There are lots of stars, but the Sun is the closest one to Earth. It is the center of our solar system.
Sing twinkle twinkle little star. I'll only award points for stellar performances.
Wow, that was moving.
True or False: you can see Pluto in the night sky without a telescope or binoculars, so long as it is dark enough.
False: that thing is too far away to see without a telescope.
Name of the two astronauts of the Apollo 11 mission to first step foot on the moon.
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
What is the name of the large galaxy that is moving toward us?
Andromeda
What is the name for the path that the Earth takes around the Sun?
An orbit.
Team V Team V Team
Draw your best space ship.
We have some regular Picasso among us.
True or false: The Earth spins around its axis once a year.
False: The Earth spins around its axis once a DAY.
Sputnik was the first artificial space satellite put into orbit by humans. What country was responsible for it's launch in 1957?
USSR (Russia)
What is the most massive planet in our solar system?
Jupiter, it's HUGE. 1.898 E 27 kg (317.8 Earth mass)
What star can you use to find north?
Polaris, or the "north star"
Sing the Commbank ad with hand motions
Lamo
True or False: In roman mythology, Pluto is the god of the underworld
True: He is the Roman god of the underworld. Similar the the Greek god, Hades.
There are six people of three nationalities in space right now. What space vehicle are they in?
The International Space Station.
What is Venus? Its temperature is 880°F (471°C).
This great hunter in the sky contains the stars Betelgeuse, Bellatrix and Rigel [Hint: it is a well-known constellation].
Orion
Do an impression of your teacher.
Kinda cringe tbh
True or false: When it is daytime in New York, it is nighttime in South America.
False! South America is only two hours ahead of us, and it is also lit up by the Sun when we are having daytime.
DAILY DOUBLE: How many people have stepped foot on the moon? (closest answer gets the points)
12
True or False: the Voyager Space probe, launched by NASA in 1977, is now beyond the boundaries of our solar system.
TRUE! And amazing!
Astronomers estimate there are about 100 thousand million stars in the Milky Way alone.
Compliment your teacher, if its not good enough you fail.
Well thats nice of you.