{"id":166,"date":"2014-07-19T10:47:55","date_gmt":"2014-07-19T14:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/?p=166"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:38:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T20:38:17","slug":"ten-interesting-facts-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Ten Interesting Facts&#8230;Earth&#8217;s Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/blog\/head\/Ten-Interesting-Facts-Earths-Sun.PNG\" alt=\"Ten Interesting Facts . . . . Earth's Sun\" width=\"450\" height=\"234\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">After collecting these two resources from this post, you&#8217;ll be all set for a terrific lesson on the Earth&#8217;s Sun. First, read the article. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Have you ever wondered exactly how big Earth&#8217;s sun is? Do you know how far away the sun is from Earth? Did you know the <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">polarity<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"> of the sun reverses every 11 years? Learn the answers to these questions and more interesting facts about Earth&#8217;s Sun in this article.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Next, check out the organizer. Before you read further, grab this PDF file with both the article and the organizer.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/blog\/july2014\/sunorganizer.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;\">Get Free Earth&#8217;s Sun Graphic Organizer +<br \/>\nTen Interesting Facts&#8230;the Sun by clicking here.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/science\/sun\/sun-facts-3.png\" alt=\"The Earth's Sun - Organizer and Facts\" width=\"538\" height=\"756\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/science\/sun\/sun-facts-organizer.png\" alt=\"The Earth's Sun - Organizer and Facts\" width=\"538\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: kgkindergarten;\">Earth&#8217;s Sun &#8211; The Organizer<\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><span style=\"line-height: 150%;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Each circle on the sun organizer asks students to describe something:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">sun&#8217;s classification, age, and temperature<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">size of our sun<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">life cycle of our sun<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">rotation and orbit of the sun<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">What will happen to Earth as the sun expands?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">The handout provides three versions of the organizer. The first has blanks for students to answer the questions. The second is a close exercise for students to complete the sentences. For example&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">Our sun is ___________ ________ years old. It is a ______ ________ with a diameter of __________________________ kilometers. The surface temperature is ___________ degrees Fahrenheit (________ degrees Celsius), and its core is around _____ million degrees Fahrenheit (________________ degrees Celsius).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">The final copy is an answer key with the answers provided in full sentences like this one.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, Geneva; color: #000000;\">Our sun is 4.59 billion years old. It is a Yellow Dwarf with a diameter of 1,392,684 kilometers. The surface temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5500 degrees Celsius), and its core is around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (13,600,000 degrees Celsius).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: kgkindergarten;\">Ten Interesting Facts&#8230;Earth&#8217;s Sun<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0.2in; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">1. <strong>Description<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Our sun is 4.59 billion years old. It is a Yellow Dwarf with a diameter of 1,392,684 kilometers. The surface temperature is 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5500 degrees Celsius), and its core is around 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (13,600,000 degrees Celsius).<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-indent: -0.25in; line-height: normal; margin-left: 31.5pt; margin-right: 0.2in; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">2. <strong>Size<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">The sun is 960,000 times bigger than Earth. It makes up around 99.86% of the Solar System\u2019s mass. Jupiter takes up most of the final mass. If you flatten out Earth, it would take 11,990 of them to cover the surface of the Sun.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<table style=\"height: 342px;\" width=\"512\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\"><strong> \u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"181\"><strong> Diameter<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"181\"><strong> Ratio of the Sun<br \/>\nCompared to . . .<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Sun<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1377648 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Mercury<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">4880 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 277.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Venus<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">12104 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 113.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Earth<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">12756 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 108.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Moon<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">3476 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 416.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Mars<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">6788 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 208.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Jupiter<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">142740 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 9.68<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Saturn<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">120034 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 11.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Uranus<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">51152 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 26.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Neptune<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">49620 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 27.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"181\">Pluto<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">2296 km<\/td>\n<td width=\"181\">1 to 625<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">3. <strong>Growing<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; ; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">The sun is slowly becoming brighter. In about a billion years from now, the Sun will grow so hot that life on Earth will be destroyed. Liquid water will dry up. In another 7 billion years, the Sun will reach the giant phase and will expand to engulf Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; text-indent: -0.25in; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">4. <strong>Changing<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">After expanding, the sun will collapse to be approximately the size of Earth. When this happens, it will be called a dwarf white. About 74% of the Sun is hydrogen. It has already burned off about half of its stored hydrogen.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">5. <strong>Shape<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; ; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">The sun is almost a perfect sphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">6. \u00a0<strong>Light<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Light travels at the rate of 300,000 kilometers per second. Because of this, light from the Sun takes 8 minutes and 20 seconds to reach Earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">7.<strong>Orbit<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Just as the Earth orbits the sun, the sun orbits the center of the Milky Way. This takes 225-250 million years to complete.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; ; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">8.<strong>Rotation<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Because the sun is a sphere of hydrogen gas, different parts rotate at different speeds. The area near the equator takes about 25 days to complete one rotation, and the areas near the poles take around 36 days.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">9. <strong>Magnetic Polarity<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Every 11 years, the Sun reverses its magnetic polarity. The north magnetic pole becomes the south pole and the south pole becomes the north pole.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">10. <strong>Gravity<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\"MsoListParagraphCxSpFirst\" style=\"line-height: normal; margin-right: 0.2in; margin-left: 31.5pt; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Gravity is so strong on the sun that a person weighing 150 pounds on Earth would weigh more than 4,000 pounds on the Sun.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 372px;\" width=\"366\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\"><strong> The weight of a<br \/>\n150-pound person on . . .<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Sun<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">4060.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Mercury<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">56.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Venus<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">136<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Earth<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">150<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Moon<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">24.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Mars<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">56.5<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Jupiter<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">354.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Saturn<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">159.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Uranus<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">133.3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"107\">Neptune<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">168.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: left;\" width=\"107\">Pluto<\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"254\">10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/blog\/july2014\/sunphoto.jpg\" alt=\"Sun Photo\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: medium;\">Information Sources<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/space-facts.com\/the-sun\/\"> http:\/\/space-facts.com\/the-sun\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencekids.co.nz\/sciencefacts\/space\/sun.html\"> http:\/\/www.sciencekids.co.nz\/sciencefacts\/space\/sun.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.factretriever.com\/sun-facts\"> http:\/\/facts.randomhistory.com\/2009\/07\/06_sun.html<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/science\/sun\/sun-facts-2.png\" alt=\"The Earth's Sun - Organizer and Facts\" width=\"538\" height=\"756\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-6\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/science\/sun\/sun-facts.png\" alt=\"The Earth's Sun - Organizer and Facts\" width=\"538\" height=\"756\" \/><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/blog\/july2014\/sunorganizer.pdf\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-large;\">Get Free Earth&#8217;s Sun Graphic Organizer +<br \/>\nTen Interesting Facts&#8230;the Sun by clicking here.<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"container text-center\">\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-4\"><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nametransparent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2320\" src=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nametransparent-282x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nametransparent-282x300.png 282w, https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nametransparent-600x637.png 600w, https:\/\/bookunitsteacher.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nametransparent.png 644w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 282px) 100vw, 282px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After collecting these two resources from this post, you&#8217;ll be all set for a terrific lesson on the Earth&#8217;s Sun. 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