Explore planets and let your students get creative by developing their own planet.
Create Your Very Own Planet and Create a Class Solar System
Embark on a cosmic adventure as young minds become celestial architects with our engaging planet creation template. This resource opens the door to boundless creativity, allowing students to design and bring to life their very own planets. Our step-by-step guide ensures that crafting a new world is not only educational but also incredibly fun.
This template includes the following aspects students need to decide upon when creating their planet:
- The planets name.
- Distance from the sun.
- Number of moons.
- Weather
- Who lives there?
- My planet is made up of…
- Fun facts about my planet.
You can encourage them to be as realistic (or not) as you would like..
More Activities Stemming from this Planet Activity
After your students have created their very own planet, there are many things you get them to do to draw on their excitement. Here are some suggestions:
- Use it as a writing stimulus and have students write a story where their planet is the setting.
- Have students create a 3D model of their planet using paper mâché.
- Have students work in small groups to create a whole solar system with each of their created planets.
- Students can share their created planets with other classes for a speaking task.
Download and Get Creating Today!
This resource is available to download as an easy to print PDF document.
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