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Solar System ideas
By Amy

We are just finishing up a solar system unit in my second grade class. Some of the activities we did with the kids included having them cut out and paste the planets on a long black piece of paper in order and color them
according to their colors. We also were and still might do a constellation lesson in which we turn off all the lights and make it as dark as possible and them have a pieces of construction paper with holes cut out in the shape of various constellations such as the big dipper and Orion's belt. We also kept a space log and everyday that we studied space we would write on an overhead what they

learned and they would copy it on their own log sheet. We also had them make solar system mobiles in the shape of a sun, which they decorated and then we punched holes through note cards and tied them to the mobile with string. On each note card students put facts on both sides of the note card they had learned about the solar system. We are also in the process of making rocket ships which students will decorate and in the middle will be a piece of writing paper that students will write either fictionally about their trip in space or about different space facts that they have learned. If these help let me know I have a few more ideas.