Solar System Unit

Check out this file in action by reading this blog post, Solar System Spectacular! 

Calling All Junior Astronauts!! Get ready to teach your students about the solar system in an engaging, innovative, and hands-on way. There are 200 pages of student reproducibles, activities, lessons, anchor charts, and out-of-this-world ideas, which are sure to motivate your young astronauts!

1. Solar System Acrostic poems

Astronauts work in cooperative groups to research, write, and present acrostic poems about the planets!

2. Awesome orbits

Astronauts learn how the Moon orbits the earth and the earth orbits the sun, in a fun, interactive lesson! Pictures, directions with an example, a colorful poster and an awesome orbits flip book are included in this file.

3. Blast off your Space Unit

Cute and unique ideas to get your junior astronauts excited and motivated to learn about the solar system and keep them engaged throughout the unit!

4. Crazy about constellations

Young astronauts begin by sharing their schema about constellations. As they read more about constellations, their schema expands. Young astronauts then make their own constellations- which makes a beautiful bulletin board display. This file includes many colorful posters- make sure you have a color printer available! Please see the preview for some images of this file!! :)

Included:

– Resources for introducing schema to your young astronauts

– 13 posters of constellations to print and display

– Crazy about Constellations flip book (Students connect the stars to form the featured constellation)

– Writing template and art project idea for students to write about a constellation they learned about (makes a great bulletin board display!)

Constellations featured in the file:

– Ursa Major

– Ursa Minor

– Hercules

– Cygnus

– Cassiopeia

– Perseus

– Canis Major

– Canis Minor

– Draco

– Orion

– Pegasus

– Cephus

– Andromeda

5. Exciting Eclipses

A fun and interactive way to learn about the difference between the solar and lunar eclipse!

6. Galaxy Galore

A fun writing lesson and art project- A fun writing lesson and art project for your junior astronauts! Students write an acrostic poem about the Milky Way and then create an awesome art project. (Paint is recommended but you can also use crayons!) This file includes pictures of the project in process and the finished project!

7. Solar System Assessment

Let your astronauts show you what they know and earn their way into the space academy with flying colors!

8. Solar System comparison

A great graphic organizer

9. Solar System flip book

Students make their own non-fiction flip book on the planets in the solar system. After learning about the planets and the solar system, students creatively publish their own non-fiction book about each planet.

Students use what they learned to write facts and add captions to each page about the 9 planets. Students then use their creativity to add these pages to their informational text:

– All about the author

– Table of contents

– Index

– Glossary

This resource also includes a rubric for the teacher and checklist for the student is available.

10. The Lunar Cycle

Students make a concrete example of the different phases of the moon: new moon, first quarter, full moon, third quarter. There is also an option for the 8 phases of the moon. File includes black and white/color copies for students and anchor charts.

If you have any questions, please contact me before purchasing!