A hands-on day and night worksheet where 3rd graders read Sun and Earth diagrams, finish science sentences from a word box, and explain what makes it dark. Answer key included for quick, no-prep review.
Students use the Earth Planet Worksheet to read a six-fact file about our planet, complete word-bank sentences, and write full-sentence answers. Built for 3rd Grade with an answer key included.
This Mercury Planet Worksheet gives 3rd graders a fact file about the first planet from the Sun, then four word-bank sentences and three written answers. Answer key included for fast, no-prep solar system practice.
A Saturn planet worksheet for 3rd grade that pairs a short Saturn fact file with word-bank sentences and two written questions. Answer key included, so students can check their own solar system facts.
This Venus Planet Worksheet gives 3rd Grade students a short fact box, fill-in-the-blank sentences, bubble questions, and a written response, with an answer key included, so learning about Venus feels clear and doable.
This Mars planet worksheet hands 3rd graders a kid-friendly fact file, then asks them to name Mars facts and explain one in writing. Answer key included for confident, no-prep science practice.
This Jupiter Planet Worksheet gives 4th graders a short science passage, a word bank, and two written-response questions about the largest planet. Answer key included for fast, no-prep solar system practice.
This Solar System Crossword Puzzle gives 3rd graders ten clues about the Sun, the planets, orbits, and telescopes to solve with no word bank. An answer key is included, so space vocabulary practice takes no prep.
Students read a short Neptune Fact File, then use it to finish five sentences and answer two written questions. This Neptune planet worksheet is built for 4th grade and includes a complete answer key.
This Uranus Planet Worksheet gives 5th graders a fact file about the seventh planet, six sentences to complete and three questions to answer in writing. An answer key is included, so space science needs no prep.
This Is Pluto a Planet? Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 5th graders a two-page science article and six questions about one real scientific debate. An answer key is included, so close reading practice is ready in minutes.
This writing about space worksheet helps 1st grade students plan a space story with three simple questions, then write it on six wide lines. Every story is the child's own.
The Remembering Your Planets Reading Comprehension Worksheet gives 2nd graders a short story about a memory trick for the eight planets, plus questions and an answer key for confident, independent reading practice.
Blast off on a tour of the solar system!
Kids learn that eight planets travel around the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They find out the inner four are small and rocky, while the outer four are giant balls of gas and ice. Each planet has its own personality: Mars is red and dusty, Jupiter is the biggest, Saturn has amazing rings. Older kids learn why Earth has day and night, why Pluto is now called a dwarf planet, and how planets orbit. The click comes when kids realize Earth is just one planet on the tour.
Planets spark big curiosity. These moves turn it into learning.
Play the planets song and have kids hold up fingers for each planet as it's named. After a few days, pause the song and let them sing the next planet. Music is the easiest way to learn the order.
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 →Flash a planet card and kids share one fact about it. Keep a class "fact wall" and add new facts each day. Pictures help kids tell the planets apart.
Why it works: children learn more from words and pictures together than from words alone (Mayer, 2009).
Try it withSpace Flash CardsFlash CardsOpen it →Kids use paper circles or fruit of different sizes to show the planets in order from the sun. Talk about which are rocky and which are gas giants as you go. A hands-on model makes size and order make sense.
Why it works: kids understand an idea best when they touch it, then draw it, then write it, the order the U.S. Department of Education recommends for elementary math.
Try it withSolar System ActivityActivitiesOpen it →Kids go out of this world for these:
WorksheetsKids solve clues about the planets and fill in a solar system crossword.
Open Solar System Crossword Puzzle →
AssessmentsRead about why Pluto was reclassified, then let kids share their opinion: should it be a planet?
Open Is Pluto a Planet? Reading Comprehension Worksheet →
WorksheetsKids learn fun facts about the red planet, then design their own Mars explorer.
Open Mars Planet Worksheet →Teacher favorites right now: Day and Night Worksheet, Earth Planet Worksheet and Mercury Planet Worksheet.
A song or a silly sentence works best. Try "My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos" for Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
In 2006, astronomers decided a planet must clear its path around the sun. Pluto shares its path with other icy objects, so it's now called a dwarf planet.
Kids often meet the planets in 1st or 2nd grade, and study the solar system in more depth in 3rd through 5th grade, including orbits, day and night, and planet features.
Look at the night sky together. Venus and Jupiter are often bright and easy to spot. A stargazing app help you find them, and kids love seeing a real planet.
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