Space The solar system and beyond: the Sun, how the planets were born, each planet in turn, the Moon with its phases, eclipses and tides, asteroids, the moons of Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, comets, stars, galaxies and the people who went to space.
The space course of Mova's primary school: 32 lessons, 514 sentences, each sentence with its syntax tree and pragmatics. Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0 (Mova corpus 0.4).
1 The Sun, our star 16 sentences · The Sun is a star, the same kind of thing as the tiny dots you see at night, only so close that it fills our… 2 How the Solar System was born 14 sentences · About 4.6 billion years ago there was no Sun and no Earth, only a huge, cold cloud of gas and dust called th… 3 Mercury 17 sentences · Mercury is the smallest planet and the closest to the Sun, a grey, cratered ball only a little bigger than o… 4 Venus 16 sentences · Venus is almost exactly the size of the Earth and is our nearest planet, so it is called Earth's twin, but i… 5 The Earth as a planet 15 sentences · Our Earth is the third planet from the Sun, a rocky ball like Mercury, Venus and Mars, but the biggest of th… 6 The Moon 17 sentences · The Moon is a ball of grey rock about a quarter as wide as the Earth, circling us about 384,000 kilometres a… 7 Phases, eclipses and tides 17 sentences · The Sun always lights half of the Moon, like a lamp lighting half of a ball; as the Moon goes round us we se… 8 Mars 17 sentences · Mars, the fourth planet, further from the Sun than the Earth, is the red planet, and it is red for the same… 9 Asteroids and the asteroid belt 17 sentences · Asteroids are the leftover building blocks from when the planets formed, lumps of rock and metal from pebble… 10 Jupiter 18 sentences · Jupiter is the king of the planets: about 11 Earths would fit across it, and it is more than twice as heavy… 11 Jupiter's moons 16 sentences · Jupiter is like a king with a huge court: more than 90 moons go round it, and telescopes keep finding new ti… 12 Saturn and its rings 18 sentences · Saturn is a giant ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, about nine times wider than the Earth, and so lig… 13 Saturn's moons 15 sentences · Saturn holds the record for moons: more than 270 are known, most of them small lumps, and new ones are still… 14 Uranus and Neptune 14 sentences · Uranus and Neptune are the ice giants: under their hydrogen and helium air they are mostly water, ammonia an… 15 Pluto, the Kuiper belt, the Oort cloud and comets 16 sentences · Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper belt, a huge ring of icy bodies, and Pluto is one of the biggest of them, whi… 16 Meteors, meteorites and shooting stars 18 sentences · A shooting star is not a star at all: it is a grain of rock or dust, often smaller than a grain of sand, rus… 17 Stars: what they are 15 sentences · The Sun is a star, quite an ordinary one: it looks so huge and bright only because it is about 270,000 times… 18 How stars live 16 sentences · Stars are born inside huge, cold clouds of gas and dust called nebulae: a clump collapses under its own grav… 19 How stars die 15 sentences · When a star like the Sun runs short of hydrogen in its core, it swells into a red giant hundreds of times wi… 20 Constellations and the night sky in winter and spring 15 sentences · A constellation is an area of sky with an agreed pattern of stars, like a county on a map of the sky: astron… 21 The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky 12 sentences · The sky changes with the seasons, because as Earth goes round the Sun our night side faces a different part… 22 Distances and light years 14 sentences · Space is so big that kilometres stop being useful, so astronomers measure it by how far light travels, the f… 23 The Milky Way 14 sentences · The Sun is not alone: it is one of a few hundred billion stars in a giant spinning disc called the Milky Way… 24 Galaxies and the Big Bang 15 sentences · Just a hundred years ago many astronomers thought our Milky Way was the whole universe, until Edwin Hubble s… 25 Black holes 19 sentences · A black hole is not a hole and not a cosmic vacuum cleaner: it is a huge amount of mass squeezed into a tiny… 26 Exoplanets and the search for life 16 sentences · An exoplanet is a planet going round a star other than our Sun, and we now know thousands of them. 27 Telescopes and light 18 sentences · A telescope is above all a light bucket: its main job is to collect as much light as possible, so faint thin… 28 How we know: measuring the sky 17 sentences · Nobody has flown to a star with a tape measure, yet we know how far stars are and what they are made of: ast… 29 The history of space exploration 15 sentences · For thousands of years people could only look up; in the last 80 years we have sent machines, animals and pe… 30 What comes next: the Moon, Mars and beyond 16 sentences · After fifty years away, people are heading back towards the Moon: it was reported that in April 2026 NASA's… 31 Olympiad: planet puzzles ★★★ 19 sentences · This closing block mixes the whole Solar System into puzzles: each one needs two facts from different lesson… 32 Olympiad: stars, light and space history ★★★ 17 sentences · The second olympiad lesson leaves the planets for the stars, starlight and the people who explored space: ea… ← previous Religion ethicsnext → Technology↑ back to the school This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/