How to Make a Model of the Earth

ESOL students made a model of the 
earth,
with the crust, mantle, outer 
core, and inner
core. We drew circles on the 
Styrofoam ball for each layer of 
the Earth with a sharpie. We 
painted the inside of the ball. 
We needed to paint the layers. 
First we painted the inner core 
red. Second we painted the outer 
core orange. Third we painted the 
mantle yellow. Then we painted 
the crust brown. 

When we were done we let it dry 
over the night. It’s dry! The day 
after the ball dried, we wrapped 
the address labels on the sticks. 
Then we wrote down the names of 
the layers on the labels. Next, 
we painted the outside of the 
Styrofoam ball green and blue and 
we let the Styrofoam ball dry. 

After that we stuck the labels on 
the Styrofoam ball. Then we put 
two sticks in the bottom of the 
ball. We put the ball on the 
green foam.  Finally we wrote our 
name on our green foam.  We had 
lots of fun making the model.