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Solar System and the Planets
This collection contains resources relating to the Solar System and Planets. There are a range of activities, images, video and information from sources such as the European Space Agency and NASA. There are a range of materials which can be used with primary or secondary students.
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Solar System Puzzle Kit
Produced by NASA, this activity contains information about the planets of the solar system. The main activity allows students to create an eight-cube paper puzzle of the solar system. In assembling the puzzle, students colour images of the Sun, planets and asteroids. In addition to puzzle pieces, the kit contains...
The Solar System, Planets, Asteroids and Comets
Produced by Teachers TV, as part of the Teaching Astronomy and Space series, this video looks at Saturn, its moons and finally on the risk of an asteroid colliding with Earth.
Planetary scientist Sheila Kanani shows...
What's Moving on Titan?
This Science upd8 activity draws on Titan which is the biggest of Saturn's moons.
There are two student activities; one involves labelling a diagram to tell students on Earth about the nature of Titan.
The other asks students to take the role of Titanian space explorers and use data to compare the...
Earth and the Solar System
This resource from Physicists in Primary Schools (PIPS) supports the teaching of Earth and Space at Key Stage Two. A presentation introduces Earth and the planets of our solar system, with an activity in which children help demonstrate the relative sizes of planets and the distances between them. It moves on to...