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Spicy Solar System Spicy Solar System Goal Age Difficulty Skills Materials Pre-requisites Model the solar system with edible ingredients 5 upwards Easy to Medium Understanding scales See table Minimal knowledge about the Solar System Introduction This model aims at representing the solar system to scale (sizes of the objects) based on edible ingredients that can easily be found in most environments. If these ingredients are hard to find, they can of course be replaced by another of the same size. The Solar System Sun Mercury Venus Earth - Moon Mars Asteroid belt Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune (Pluto) basket ball mustard seed yellow lentil pepper corn poppy seed red lentil flour grapefruit orange (with a paper ring) onion orange/mandarine poppy seed Extension You can play several games with the children: order the planets according to their distance from the sun, their sizes (which is the smallest, biggest, etc.) In a classroom, “planet boxes” can be made: a box of mustard seeds labelled “Mercury”, a box of lentils labelled “Mars”. Etc. Source: Pratham – UNAWE India Universe Awareness