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Solar System Planet Banners
If you teach your students the solar system, assess their knowledge of the inner and outer planets using these colorful banners and project. The colorful classroom décor banners showcase Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Students can fill in a blank version to show their knowledge of the solar system's terrestrial and gas giant planets. In addition, there is a planet project rubric included!
This FREE solar system and planet project includes:
- Eight FREE banners to showcase the planets of our solar system. Each banner will showcase the following:
- Where it is in reference to the sun
- Whether it is a terrestrial planet or a gas giant
- Diameter of the planet
- What it is made of
- Its atmospheric gases
- Number of moons
- Temperature
- Rotation on its axis
- Revolution around the sun
- Blank version of the templates for students to use to create their own model
Students will demonstrate learning of:
- Characteristics and differences between the terrestrial planets and gas giants
- Important facts and information about objects in our solar system
How to use these free banners and project in your classroom:
- Classroom decor! Add some color and flair to your science classroom by hanging the completed version of these banners.
- Science bulletin board: Create a science specific bulletin board using the completed colorful solar system banners to construct your science bulletin board.
- Sub plans: Put students into 8 different groups to research and complete the blank banners.
- Culminating planet project: Assign students a planet to complete a banner for.
- Enrichment
- Struggling learner activity
Teacher feedback:
- Students enjoyed researching the planet of their choice and filling in the information. Great for students with different learning styles. We put them all together to create our own hanging solar system.
- Beautiful addition to our solar system unit in class. The students really enjoy reading them and memorizing the information.