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PIP’S STARHAVEN · ACTIVITY SHEET · CHILDREN

Rocky worlds and giant worlds

20 minutes · Paper · Pencil · Colored pencils

Your investigation

  1. Draw eight empty boxes and label them with the eight planets in order.
  2. Mark Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars as rocky planets. Mark Jupiter and Saturn as gas giants, Uranus and Neptune as ice giants.
  3. Choose one rocky world and one giant. Draw a probe for each and label whether it could land on solid ground.
  4. Add one question your probe should investigate.

Think, draw, explain

Which four have rocky surfaces?

Does “ice giant” describe an ordinary frozen ball?

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