This document provides information about activities to teach students about the solar system. It includes 4 group activities: 1) watching an instructional video on the solar system, 2) arranging planetary bodies in order of their distance from the sun, 3) filling in a table with characteristics of the planets, and 4) checking for misconceptions about the solar system. The activities aim to teach students about the components of the solar system and their properties.

1. THE SOLAR SYSTEM
*Picture of solar system

2.  Orbit – imaginary path where the planets
travels around the sun
 Prominent – outstanding; famous
 Solar – has something to do with the Sun
 Satellite – moon; smaller object orbiting
around a planet

3. ACTIVITY LIFT-OFF!
Form into 4 groups.
Choose your Leader and Assistant
Leader.
Get the activity sheets and materials for
your group.
NOTE: Group will present their outputs to
the class after each activities.
GOOD LUCK!!!

4. ACTIVITY 1: WATCH AND LEARN
The SOLAR SYSTEM

5. ACTIVITY 2: ARRANGE ME
Based on the video you watched,
arrange the heavenly bodies found in
the Solar System according to their
orbit/location
Draw circles on the Figure 1 to
represent the heavenly bodies.
Label each heavenly bodies.
Complete task in 5 minutes.

6. SUN
Asteroids
Kuiper Belt
Objects
(Plutoids)
Comets

7. QUESTIONS:
 What heavenly body is found at the center of the
Solar System?
 What are the planets in the Solar System (from
the nearest to the farthest from the Sun)?

8. ACTIVITY 3: FILL ME UP
Study the table. (Table 1)
Fill up the cells with information
needed. (Characteristic could be about
their color, size, distance from the sun,
temperature, or other features)
Complete task in 5 minutes.

9. TABLE 1:
PLANETS PROMINENT CHARACTERISTICS
Mercury can be very cold and very hot

10. TABLE 1:
PLANETS CHARACTERISTICS
Mercury nearest to the sun, smallest planet
Venus hottest planet, fire planet
Earth water planet, only known planet to support life
Mars red planet, believed to have harbored life before
Jupiter Gas giant, largest planet
Saturn Gas giant, has magnificent ring system
Uranus Ice giant, coldest planet
Neptune Ice giant, farthest planet

11. QUESTIONS:
 Why is Pluto not considered as one of the major
planets?
 Why is it important to study about the planets?

12. Directions:
Read the statements in the first column carefully. Write “TRUTH”
if the statement is correct otherwise, write “BLUFF, on the second column.
Then support your answer by writing your explanation in the third
column.
Note: Complete task in 5 minutes.
Statement True/False Explanation
1. Sun is the center of the
Solar System
2. The solar system is made up
of only the Sun and the
eight planets.
3. Mars can support life.
4. Pluto is the most distant and
last object in the Solar
System.
Activity 4: Misconception Check

13. TOUCHDOWN:
 1. What are the different planets in the solar
system?
 2. What is the center of the solar system?

14. SPACE GRILL!
CHOOSE THE LETTER OF THE CORRECT ANSWER.
1. How many planets are there in the solar system?
A.8 B. 9 C. 10 D. 4
2.Name the planet found between Mars and Saturn.
A. Neptune B. Jupiter C. Uranus D. Earth
3. Which statement about the solar system is correct?
A. The planets orbit the sun.
B. The sun orbit the planets
C. Satellite orbit asteroids
D. The planet does not orbit all the time.
4. Which of these does not fit into either major category of a planets.
A. Mercury B. Jupiter C. Pluto D. Earth
5.Which planet is the nearest to the sun
A. Neptune B. Jupiter C. Uranus D. Mercury

15. 6. Why Mercury has the shortest period of revolution around the sun?
A. Mercury is the nearest planet to the sun.
B. Mercury is the smallest planet to the sun.
C. Mercury move fast than the other planets.
D. None of the above
7. What planets seems to be the largest?
A. Neptune B. Jupiter C. Uranus D. Mercury
8. What is the center of the solar system
A. Asteriod B. Pluto C. Neptune D. Sun
9.What ikind of heavenly body is the sun?
A. Star B. Planet C. Moon D. Meteor
10. Why is the sun also considered a star?
A. The sun has the same structure as a star.
B. The sun emits heat and light just like a star.
C. The sun has similar color with that of a star
D. Both A and B.

16. MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.
Good Job!
Signing off…

17. Prepared by:
JENIFER B. PECSON
T-I
Balantacan ES
Lubao West District
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