The Journey of Light

The students have been creating flow diagrams and writing explanations on the journey light takes from the center of the sun to the Earth. They will be uploading their explanations to their blogs soon for you to view. It is a fascinating journey which takes over 100 000 years. They have learnt about the three main layers of the sun, atoms, plasma, and nuclear fusion. They then compared nuclear fusion to nuclear fission. The idea of creating energy on Earth from nuclear fusion is an exciting concept if scientists can work out a way to do it on a practical scale. The students are asking really interesting questions, especially around how scientists find out this information. This is such an awesome question for aspiring scientists to ask.

We have watched this documentary as part of our inquiry.