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Planet order rescue

15 minutes · Paper · Pencil · Eight small paper name cards

Your investigation

  1. Write these mixed names on cards: Neptune, Earth, Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Saturn.
  2. Draw the Sun at the left of your page. Arrange the cards from nearest to farthest planet.
  3. Check the order, then add the Moon beside its planet and label the Sun as a star.
  4. Write “sizes and distances not to scale” beneath your map.

Think, draw, explain

Which two planets are Earth’s neighbors in the order?

Why should the Moon not become the ninth planet in this row?

Compare your explanation with the grown-up answer guide after you have tried.