So, my boys love to watch videos on YouTube about the Solar System. There are many to choose from and they never get tired of watching them. A lot of them have really cool music that goes a long with it. Unfortunately, Brigham doesn't care and will start the video over before it's done so the music gets cut off. Oh well.
Some of Jonathan's favorite videos are of kids explaining the relative distances between the planets. He loved it so much that he wanted to make his own video and put it on YouTube. He was so excited and could hardly wait to do the actual filming. He had to wait, though, because there was a lot of work to do to figure out the distances.
Using the distances in the Magic School Bus: Lost in the Solar System book, we quickly converted millions of kilometers to inches. But even that was too big. Pluto would have been farther away from the sun than our house is long. It was dark and cold outside, and Jonathan couldn't wait. So, we divided the inches in half, and with the feet to inches conversion on top of that, my head was starting to hurt.
It was a small project but we did it and Jonathan was super excited to record it and put it on YouTube. We didn't really talk about what he would say so it's kind of Authentic Jonathan here. Take a look:
I love it. So does Brigham. Maybe we'll have to do one that is outside and bigger. I had better get started on the math.
Wow! Very impressive. No wonder you had a headache. Tell Jonathan he did a great job. It was easy to realize the distances with his display.
ReplyDeleteThat was so cute and I was also impressed, I'm glad that he included Pluto, I was pretty devistated when they striped it of it's planet status, so I'm sure it's grateful to not be forgotten:)
ReplyDeleteHe is so smart!