Show below - Inner Planets - Mercury Venus Earth & Mars    Divided by asteroid belt    Then Outer Planets Jupiter through Pluto


1st - Planets in Order From the Sun:  My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. Teach the sentence as representing the planets in order.

http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/AtHomeAstronomy/act09_planet_list.html

2nd- Review characteristics of planets

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/our_solar_system/solar_system.html     OR

http://www.kidsastronomy.com/solar_system.htm

3rd- Level 2 is 4th/5th grade appropriate;
Click on Solar System Activities "Where on Earth does that little planet go?" This is an interactive solar system for the student to order the planets.

3rd http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/solar_system_level1/solar_system.html

4th Interactive Solar System Coloring Book - Each Planet is at the bottom with details - for more indepth details go to the bottom of the page

http://www.windows.ucar.edu/tour/link=/coloring_book/java_cb/cb_mercury.html

Closing - Team up to watch the brainpop feature and take the quiz. May the best listeners win!

AFTER EACH MOVIE - CHOOSE "TAKE A POP QUIZ"  THEN - THE CENTER SELECTION - "TAKE A REVIEW QUIZ" - THIS GIVES THE ANSWER AS IT IS SELECTED! SPLIT THE CLASS INTO TEAMS - USE A HALL PASS FOR A BATON - ONLY THE PLAYER WITH THE BATON CAN ANSWER FOR THE TEAM - HOWEVER, ALL TEAM PLAYERS CAN PARTICIPATE BY GIVING THE PLAYER WITH THE BATON INPUT!  KEEP SCORE OR PLAY TIC TAC TOE - CHOOSE

BrainPop Solar Systemhttp://www.brainpop.com/science/space/solarsystem/zoom.weml

BrainPop Sun   http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/sun/

BrainPop Planets of the Solar System  http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/planetsofsolarsystem/

                                        INNER PLANETS

BrainPop Mercury  http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/mercury/

BrainPop Venus  http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/venus/

BrainPop Earth   http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/earth/

ARE THERE MARTIANS?

BrainPop - Mars - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/mars/

BrainPop - Asteroids - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/asteroids/

                                   OUTER PLANETS

BrainPop - Jupiter - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/jupiter/

BrainPop - Saturn - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/saturn/

BrainPop - Uranus - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/uranus/

BrainPop - Neptune - http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/neptune/

BrainPop - Pluto  http://www.brainpop.com/science/space/pluto/

BrainPop - Tides  http://www.brainpop.com/science/theearthsystem/tides/