Planets Notebooking Pages for Homeschool Students
Use these Planets notebooking pages when your elementary and middle school students are learning about the individual planets of our solar system.
These Planets notebooking pages are perfect for many different types of writing assignments across many different subjects like history, science (and astronomy), and language arts.
With these Individual Planets notebooking pages, your kids can write about each of the individual planets in our solar system.
They could even use these printables to report on some of the things we’ve recently discovered about the planets as a result of NASA’s missions in deep space.
These notebooking printables even work well for handwriting practice, for example, your students may want to copy a poem or quote about one of the planets.
If you want to study the planets as a collective solar system, you’ll want to use our Solar System Notebooking Pages.
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Planets Resources for Homeschoolers
Library List
In order of difficulty:
Me and My Place in Space by Joan Sweeney
My First Book of Planets: All About the Solar System for Kids by Dr. Bruce Betts
The Planets in Our Solar System (Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science 2) by Dr. Franklyn M. Branley
Pluto’s Secret: An Icy World’s Tale of Discovery by Margaret Weitekamp
The Planets by Gail Gibbons * highly recommended for your home library
Space: A Visual Encyclopedia a DK Children’s Visual Encyclopedias
Online Resources
Planets of our Solar System video from Homeschool Pop
Explore the planets of our solar system
Listen to the Planets of our Solar System song
Why Isn’t Pluto a Planet, Anymore?
Mark Rober shows us the relative sizes and distances of the planets
Read this chapter from NASA about our solar system and the planets (for middle/high school)
Hands-on Activities and Resources
My First Book About Outer Space (Dover Science For Kids Coloring Books)
Learn how to make planets with paper scraps
Learn how to draw our solar system
Make a 3-D posterboard of the planets in our solar system using these instructions as a guideline. Or create this 2D solar system model with construction paper and the directions from SciShowKids
Planets Notebooking and Journaling Pages
These notebooking pages come in 3 levels to fit all of your students’ needs. There’s a large elementary lined one, a smaller elementary lined one, and a regular lined one.
Each level of notebooking page also comes in color graphics and in black & white to save on printing costs. There are a total of 57 notebooking pages in this packet.
Find the Planets printables in the Free Resource Library. Look under Individual Notebooking > Science> Outer Space
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More Planets Homeschool Resources
Solar System Planets Workbook: A bundle of worksheets about each of our solar system’s planets in the HHO Shop
Planets & Outer Space Family-Style Unit Study at our sister site, Whole Child Homeschool
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