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Our Solar System

Know that there are other planets besides Earth and that our group of planets orbiting the Sun is called the solar system — and that space is the vast area beyond Earth's sky

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What a learner can do afterwards

  • State that Earth is a planet and there are other planets too
  • Use the term 'solar system' to describe the Sun and the planets that orbit it
  • Explain that space is the area beyond the Earth's sky, where the planets and stars are

The lesson

Earth is a planet. It is not the only one. Many other planets exist too. All of them circle around the Sun.

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The Sun sits still. Planets move around it. Earth is one of them.
Try it together

Leo asks his dad a question. 'What do we call the Sun and its planets?' Dad says, 'That group is called the solar system.'

Good to know

Space is very big. It is beyond Earth's sky. That is where planets and stars are.

Earth and other planets circle the Sun in our solar system.

Watch it

Where it sits

Where this leads

Jobs that lean on this skill. Follow one to see everything it is built on.

Then practise

8 questions wait behind this lesson, each with its answer explained. Every answer feeds the sky: stars light as they are learned, and dim when it is time to come back.

Our Solar System · Science, ages 5 to 7 · LightMySky