Our Solar System – Journey to other celestial objects | Teach with space PR01

Our Solar System consists of the Sun, eight planets and many smaller bodies called asteroids and comets. This fun and creative research project allows children to discover our closest neighbours in space and develop their communication skills by sharing their work with the class.In this activity, pupils will work in groups to research the different objects (the eight planets, comets and asteroids) in our Solar System. Each group will research one object and produce a fact sheet. At the end of the activity, the different groups present their findings to the class and combine the fact sheets into a class encyclopedia.

Languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Romanian, Spanish

Lesson images: English

Age range: 8 - 11 years old

Subjects: Science, spoken language, reading, writing, art and design

Pupils will learn:

1. Which planets have moons.

2. Which planets have rings.

3. The colours of the different planets.

4. What a moon is.

5. What a ring of a planet is.

6. To work together.