Summary
“The Eight Planets of the Solar System” is a Jack Hartmann learning song-and-movement video that teaches the sun, moon, planets, and patterns in the sky. Short and catchy — an easy warm-up, transition, or science review.
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All ages
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
The sun, moon, and planets move in patterns we can observe — day and night, the phases of the moon, and the order of the planets.
- What objects in space does this song describe?
- What pattern do they follow that we can predict?
- How is the sun different from the planets?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: sun, moon, planet, solar system, orbit.
Try it: Draw the planets in order from the sun, or draw the moon and label one thing you learned.