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Grade 4 Science · World 2: Star Gazers' Observatory · Level 13
Our Solar System
Put the sun and eight planets in order.
Warm-up, learn, try it together, practice, then a quick check. About 15 minutes.
What children learn in Level 13
- Our solar system is the sun and everything that travels around it: eight planets, their moons, and lots of smaller rocks and ice.
- Here are the planets in order from the sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
- A trick to remember the order: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nachos. Each word starts like a planet!
- Earth is the third planet from the sun. Pluto used to be called the ninth planet, but scientists now call it a dwarf planet.
Georgia Standards of Excellence in Science:
- S4E1.d — Evaluate strengths and limitations of models of our solar system in describing relative size, order, appearance and composition of planets and the sun. (Clarification statement: Composition of planets is limited to rocky vs. gaseous.)