While watching the Planets Song (Animated Music Video), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.
While listening to the Planets Song (MP3), students learn about the order of planets in our solar system as well as cool facts about each planet.
Blast off to outer space!
Preschoolers love space! They learn that we live on a planet called Earth, that the Sun is a giant star that gives us light and warmth, and that other planets travel around the Sun too. Little ones start to notice big, simple ideas: Mars looks red, Saturn has rings, and Jupiter is the biggest of all. They also learn the difference between day and night. The click moment is when a preschooler points up at the sky and says, "The Sun is a star!"
Space is huge, so we keep it simple, musical and full of wonder.
A planets song is the easiest way for little ones to hear all the names. Play it with a big picture of the solar system and point to each planet as it comes up. After a few days, kids will be singing along and pointing on their own.
Why it works: words set to a repeating melody are easier to recall than the same words spoken (Wallace, 1994).
Try it withPlanets Song (Animated Music Video)SongsOpen it →Show one planet a day with a big, bright picture. Ask, "What color is it? Is it big or small?" Kids love describing the rings, the red dust and the swirly storms, and every word builds vocabulary.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withPlanets Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Spend one minute each morning on a space fact, like "The Moon goes around the Earth." Small, steady facts add up, and kids look forward to the space minute every day.
Why it works: spreading practice out over days is one of the two most effective study methods in a major research review (Dunlosky and colleagues, 2013).
Try it withPlanets Song (MP3)SongsOpen it →Teacher favorites right now: Planets Song (Animated Music Video) and Planets Song (MP3).
Start with what they can see: the Sun, the Moon and the stars. Then use a song and big pictures to introduce the planets one at a time.
There are eight planets in our solar system: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Earth is the planet we live on.
Preschoolers can learn that Earth is our planet, the Sun is a star, the Moon travels around Earth, and there are other planets in space. Simple facts and lots of wonder are perfect at this age.
Singing a planets song, making paper plate planets, playing rocket countdown and stargazing with a flashlight in a dark room are all fun and easy.
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