Planets Printables: Create a Solar System Book
This Solar System: Planets printables workbook is a great addition to your elementary students’ study on outer space!
Your elementary students can research and record facts & interesting trivia about each of the 8 planets plus Pluto & four of the other dwarf planets along with a solar system page to create a keepsake Planets book.
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Resources for your Study of the Solar System
Library List:
National Geographic Readers: Planets by Elizabeth Carney
Planets and the Solar System (Smithsonian Kids First Discovery Books) by Cottage Door Press
There’s No Place Like Space: All About Our Solar System (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library) by Tish Rabe
National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book of Space by Catherine Hughes
Online Resources:
NASA Solar System Overview Scroll in and out to see the vastness of our solar system.
Planets’ Relative Distance with Mark Rober
Planets Song with Jack Hartmann
Learn about the Planets with Mr. DeMaio
Solar System: The Planets Printable Workbook
This Planets printables workbook includes a worksheet for each planet in the solar system. Your students can answer the questions about its distance from the sun, size, rotation time, and other interesting facts.
Each of the planet’s printables comes in 2 levels for younger elementary students and older elementary students. Pick the level that is best for your child.
There is also a final page to color showing each planet’s orbit around the sun and a title page with all of the planets for your student to color.
The dwarf planet Pluto (along with 4 other dwarf planets) has been included in the book of planets printables. You can decide whether or not to use it in your book of planets.
When your student finishes their planet book, they will have a nice resource to display and refer back to later.
Your kids may also want to create this spinning solar system complete with an asteroid belt and paper plate planets.
Get Your Copy of the Solar System: Planets Workbook
More Astronomy Resources for your Homeschool
Multi-Subject Planets & Outer Space Unit Study for PreK to 2nd grade
Multi-Subject Planets & Outer Space Unit Study for Upper Elementary
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