Engage your students with a worksheet that can be compiled into a factbook containing information about the planets in the solar system.
Students use this set of worksheets to create a fact book for their favorite planet in the solar system.
Solar System Activities for Kids 🪐📒
With this activity, students will research and record specific information about the planets on the worksheet. A copy of the planet research page can be printed for each planet and then compiled to make a complete factbook. Information that students will need to complete includes:
- planet diameter (mi.)
- distance from the Sun (millions of mi.)
- rotation time (hours)
- orbit/revolution time (days)
- average temperature (°F)
- number of moons
- ring system (yes/no)
- main composition (rock/gas/ice)
- a fun fact
Where in the Universe? 🌌
Students can also learn their place in space by recording their “cosmic address”:
- street
- city
- state
- country
- planet
- star system (Orion Arm)
- galaxy (Milky Way)
- Cluster (Virgo)
- the Universe
Team up this resource with our Planets of the Solar System Posters. Students will have all the information they need to complete their fact files.
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