Space Size Drawing Worksheet
The Sun is already on the page. Students draw the rest around it: the Moon, Earth, Jupiter, a red dwarf, two giant stars and two black holes. How big they make each one is up to them.
Download the worksheet (PDF)What students do
- Start from one dotted Sun and decide how big everything else should be beside it.
- Draw four things smaller than the Sun and four things bigger, ticking each one off.
- Use the hints: how many Earths fit across the Sun, how many Suns wide a black hole is.
- Solve the page’s one problem their own way: what to do with something far too big to fit.
How to use it
This is an art sheet. There is no scale to hit and no answer key. The hints under the drawing space are true, and they are there to start an argument, not to be measured: if 109 Earths fit across the Sun, how small does Earth have to be? If TON 618 is hundreds of thousands of Suns wide, how do you draw it at all? Children usually land on the same answer the space size comparison book uses: draw just the edge.
Where the numbers come from
The hints use the same sizes as the Space Size Comparison Book, rounded. Sizes of faraway stars and black holes are scientists’ best measurements so far and may change.
The book that goes with it
