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title: "Earth and Space"
url: "https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/2017-01-12-19-17-38-earth-and-space"
school: "Roose Community Primary School"
---

# Earth and Space

  ![Image of Earth and Space](https://files.schudio.com/roose-3/images/blog/WIN_20170112_11_57_42_Pro(1).jpg)  12 January 2017   [Helen Mackie](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/author/HMackie)   [Class of 2018](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/category/class-of-2018)

We created a scale model of our solar system using fruit and vegetables and toilet roll.

One piece of toilet roll is equivalent to 100,000,000km (100 million kilometres. Good job we've been looking at 9 digit numbers in Big Maths!)

[YouTube video](https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/90KwvkVhwgU?rel=0)

 [ School models](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/2017-01-11-12-35-58-school-models) [Ancient Greece ](https://www.rooseprimary.co.uk/blog/2017-01-13-11-11-06-ancient-greece)

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