Fun Way to learn about Solar System

When one learns about solar system, memorizing names of planets and their order is crucial.

Here is a simple way to do it , this is part of one of my activity books.

I also used it for my daughter and her friends.

Here is the page

I made a matching and sorting activity using Velcro dots.

Here is how it looked

 

 

Activity we did with it:

1. Learning names of planets and their order in terms of distance from Sun.
2. Analyse size of the planets.
3. Figure our biggest and smallest planet.
4. Some reasoning question like,

* why mercury is hotter than earth?

Compare the distance from sun and figure out which planet will get more heat

* What could be the reason that life exist only on earth?

Is it because we get the right amount of heat that suitable for existence of life?

* If sun dies down , what will happen to earth ?

Imagine Sun’s heat and light coming from it disappears (remove the sun from the picture), what will happen to us. What all things that we need will be impacted.

* What about mercury? What will happen to it?

* Why planets do not collide while revolving around the sun?

Move the planets in their orbit and see if they collide . in our case since I have not kept enough space between Saturn and Uranus they did collide .. so I just explained her that actually they don’t ours is small paper and we have not arranged it properly.

 

I am trying to figure out if we can use this same page to create some demo model for explaining gravitation forces between heavenly bodies . if we do it will add the activity to this post. Till then happy learning!