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    The document discusses the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, of solar systems. It explains that the habitable zone is the range of distances from a star where a planet could support liquid water and potentially life. Earth orbits within our solar system's habitable zone, where temperatures allow water to exist as a liquid. The document also notes that other solar systems may have planets within the habitable zone of their host stars, making life possible on those planets as well, though it has not been found living there yet.

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    The document discusses the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, of solar systems. It explains that the habitable zone is the range of distances from a star where a planet could support liquid water and potentially life. Earth orbits within our solar system's habitable zone, where temperatures allow water to exist as a liquid. The document also notes that other solar systems may have planets within the habitable zone of their host stars, making life possible on those planets as well, though it has not been found living there yet.

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    The document discusses the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, of solar systems. It explains that the habitable zone is the range of distances from a star where a planet could support liquid water and potentially life. Earth orbits within our solar system's habitable zone, where temperatures allow water to exist as a liquid. The document also notes that other solar systems may have planets within the habitable zone of their host stars, making life possible on those planets as well, though it has not been found living there yet.

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    The document discusses the habitable zone, also known as the Goldilocks zone, of solar systems. It explains that the habitable zone is the range of distances from a star where a planet could support liquid water and potentially life. Earth orbits within our solar system's habitable zone, where temperatures allow water to exist as a liquid. The document also notes that other solar systems may have planets within the habitable zone of their host stars, making life possible on those planets as well, though it has not been found living there yet.

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    The Habitable Zone

    Solar Systems and Goldilocks!


    INTRODUCTION

    • What is a planet? Can you name any planets in our solar system? What is the
    name of out star? Watch the video below to learn about our solar system:

    What you will learn:

    • Our solar system consists of


    eight planets orbiting our
    star, the Sun
    • Earth orbits the Sun in the
    habitable or Goldilocks
    Zone
    • Other solar systems exist in
    space
    • To interpret information 1. Group up and act out the orbits of the Earth and moon around the Sun
    and scales and use
    decimals to plot orbital
    distances of planets 2. Combine your groups and act out the orbit of the solar system
    INTRODUCTION

    • We need water to exist and life exists on our watery planet, but conditions
    for life are not present on other planets in our solar system

    What you will need: • Planets too close to the Sun are far too hot for water to exist as a liquid; it
    would be turned to steam and evaporate; too far away from the Sun and
    • 60 x 60 cm black water would freeze. Earth’s orbit is just right; neither too hot nor too cold.
    paper We call this the Goldilocks or habitable zone

    • Star system info • There are other planets orbiting different stars which may have favourable
    conditions for life, without things living on them
    • Ruler and coloured
    pen/pencils • Astronomical Unit (AU) is the distance of the Earth from the Sun

    • Calculator • A light year (ly) is the distance light can travel in one year
    ACTIVITY ONE

    Mars

    Venus
    Earth
    Mercury

    The Sun

    Habitable Zone
    ACTIVITY ONE
    ACTIVITY ONE
    INTRODUCTION
    ACTIVITY TWO
    ACTIVITY ONE
    ACTIVITY ONE
    ASSESSMENT

    • Which groups discovered a planet orbiting within the Goldilocks zone of


    their star system?

    • Why would some not be habitable, even if they are in the goldilocks zone?

    • Which exoplanets would be too hot/cold for life to exist?

    • How does your star system compare to other groups?


    FURTHER WORK

    If it fits, add to the diagrams the orbit of Earth (1AU).


    Consider what life would be like on Earth if we were orbiting a different star
    (Would there be water? Could it support life?)

    Have a student represent each star - using the fact sheets, can they arrange
    themselves into the following sequences:

    • Distance from Earth

    • Brightness (luminosity)

    • Size/mass

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