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The Inner Planets

For Students 9th - 12th
For this planets worksheet, students review the characteristics of the inner planets: Mars, Venus, Earth, and Mercury. This worksheet has 15 multiple choice questions.
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What's "In" There: A Study of the Inner Planets - Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars

For Teachers 1st
First graders identify and explore the four inner planets. In this planet science lesson, 1st graders watch a PowerPoint about the planets. Students read the book Our Solar System and discuss the inner planets. Students create a book...
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Planets

For Students 6th - 10th
In this planets instructional activity, students read about Mercury, Venus, and Earth and then complete 21 multiple choice, 2 true or false, and 1 short answer question.
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Organizer
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What Are the Inner Planets?

For Students 5th
In this inner planet worksheet, students will complete a graphic organizer by writing in information about the four inner planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars.
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PE Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Pupils use various ball skills to reinforce the names of the planets, their order in relation to the sun, and the revolving of the planets around the sun.
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Be A Planet

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students identify the name, order and attributes of the planets. They role play the position of planets, and draw pictures of the planets as well.
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Planets in Balance

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students study the solar system by researching the planets.  For this exploratory lesson students divide into teams and create mobiles.
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Inner Planets

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Learners research characteristics of the planets and record their findings on Planet Web worksheet. They create fold paper to create a foldable booklet to display the information they discover about the planets.
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Inner Planets

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students create a booklet about the inner planets after researching the characteristics of each planet. Students research the following items for each planet: moons, size, rotation, orbit, atmosphere, an interesting fact. Their final...
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Pluto a Planet No More

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Learners help to create a list of planets in the solar system. They review the terms in the news section and complete the sentences given. They then read the article together and discuss.
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Our Solar System

For Students 7th - 9th
In this space science worksheet, students use the clues at the bottom of the sheet to solve the crossword puzzle on our solar system. They identify the different planets and their location in relation to the sun.
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Solar System Model

For Teachers 9th - 12th
How many planets can you name? Did you get all 13 in our solar system, including the dwarf planets, or were you surprised when you read there are 13 planets? The instructional activity helps scholars understand the scale of the universe...
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Planet/Constellation Mobile

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students construct three-dimensional solar system mobiles.
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PPT
Mr. E. Science

Our Solar System

For Students 7th - 8th Standards
The presentation starts with the scientists who made discoveries about our solar system: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Galileo, Brahe, Kepler, and Newton. It also covers the planets, inner, outer, and Pluto, satellites, and an in-depth discussion...
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The Solar System

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students construct a sketch of the planets in our solar system using concentric circles and angles. In this solar system lesson plan, students plot the position of each planet on concentric circles using graph paper. The sun is included...
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PPT
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Who Wants to be a Millionaire: Solar System

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Fourth and fifth graders will love showing what they know about the planets and our solar system. This game is fashioned after "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" and has the class work through fifteen different solar system related...
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Modeling the Solar System

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students build a scaled model of the solar system. In this space science lesson, students arrange them according to their distances from the sun. They analyze each planet's unique features such as density and relative gravity.
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Life on Other Planets

For Students 4th - 6th
For this planets worksheet, students put the planets in order, complete sentences about planets, read text about planets, match sentences, and more. Students complete 7 tasks total.
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Is There a Tenth Planet?

For Students 5th - 12th
For this planets worksheet, students read about how our solar system's planets were discovered and how scientist believe there might be a tenth planet. After reading, students complete 4 short answer questions.
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Solar System

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this online interactive Solar System worksheet, students access a specific website to locate the multiple choice answers to 4 questions dealing with the Solar System. Students answer 3 short answer questions and draw a line connecting...
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Gravity Exploration

For Students 7th - 10th
For this gravity worksheet, learners determine how much they would weigh on the different planets. Students calculate how far they could jump on other planets. This worksheet has 2 graphic organizers and 6 short answer questions.
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The Outer Planets

For Students 5th - 8th
In this planets worksheet, students research the diameters and sizes of the planets. Then student will create scale model sizes of the planets out of cookie dough. Students complete 5 short answer questions.
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Planets: Comparatives and Superlatives

For Students 3rd - 5th
In this ESL activity worksheet, learners practice using comparatives and superlatives as they respond to 7 multiple choice questions.
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Why is the Average Temperature Greater on Venus than on Mercury?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students examine the reasons why the temperature is higher on Venus than on Mercury. In groups, they analzye both planet's atmospheres and determine the rate of global warming on each. They use the internet to research the planets in...

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