The sixth-grade science students at Triton Elementary School participated in an exploration lab last week where they created a model of the sun. In this lab the students learned of the sun’s six layers (core, radiative zone, convective zone, photosphere, chromosphere, corona) as well as the sun’s other features including sunspots, solar flares and prominences. They also learned about the composition of the sun being mostly of hydrogen and helium. The sun being a medium star, they predicted that the sun’s energy came from the core of the sun. Pictured are sixth-graders Drew Stichter, Beau Hepler and Jarret Guard.
