Learn About Planets In Our Solar System

Explore the solar system.

Learn about planets in our solar system.

Our solar system is home to eight amazing planets. Venus venus thick atmosphere makes it the hottest planet in our solar system. Others are freezing cold. See the universe in cosmic colors.

Explore the many volcanoes in our solar system using the space volcano explorer. Some are small and rocky. Unit 2 sun earth connection solar system lesson 13. How to remember the order of the planets in our solar system method 1 of 4.

Make up a silly sentence. Complete a craft and play a game to learn about the planets in our solar system including their names order size and surface temperatures. Welcome to nasa s eyes a way for you to learn about your home planet our solar system the universe beyond and the spacecraft exploring them. Saturn saturn has the brightest most massive and most complex ring system of any planet.

I use this lesson model because it peaks the students interest in the beginning during the engage portion. A mnemonic device is a trick that you can use to help you remember. Earth the only planet in our solar system with liquid water on the surface. The planets of our solar system.

Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids. All about the planets. We send spacecraft to take pictures gather information and find out more about them. Some are so hot that metals would melt on the surface.

Many people are auditory. Mars mars was a wet and warm planet billions of years ago. Salt painting our solar system use salt and water colors to create colorful artwork of our solar system. Listen to an audio recording of yourself saying the planets.

With applications for mac and pc as well as apps for mobile devices there are many ways for you to follow along with our scientists and engineers. We re learning new things about our neighboring planets all the time. I plan most of my science lessons using the bscs 5e lesson model. Here is an in depth introduction to the solar system and the planets that are in it.

Jupiter the largest planet its dark red spot is a storm larger than earth. Engage explore explain elaborate and evaluate for a quick overview of the model take a look at this video.