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Solar System Planets and Learning Goals

The document discusses the planets in Earth's solar system. It begins by stating the learning objectives are to identify the planets and determine their order from the Sun. It then provides details about each planet from the Sun - Mercury is the closest and fastest planet, Venus is the second planet and very hot, Earth is third and the only known planet to host life, Mars is fourth and smallest after Mercury, Jupiter is fifth and largest, Saturn is sixth and second largest, Uranus is seventh with the third largest radius, Neptune is eighth and farthest, and Pluto is an icy dwarf planet beyond Neptune's orbit.

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Solar System Planets and Learning Goals

The document discusses the planets in Earth's solar system. It begins by stating the learning objectives are to identify the planets and determine their order from the Sun. It then provides details about each planet from the Sun - Mercury is the closest and fastest planet, Venus is the second planet and very hot, Earth is third and the only known planet to host life, Mars is fourth and smallest after Mercury, Jupiter is fifth and largest, Saturn is sixth and second largest, Uranus is seventh with the third largest radius, Neptune is eighth and farthest, and Pluto is an icy dwarf planet beyond Neptune's orbit.

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Solar System

Learning Objectives
Students will be able to identify the planets in
the Earth's solar system. Students will be able to
determine the position of the planets from the
sun.

Sun - is the star at the center of the Solar


System. 

Mercury – Mercury is the closest planet to the


sun. As such, it circles the sun faster than all the
other planets, which is why Romans named it
after their swift-footed messenger god.

Venus - The hot, hellish & volcanic planet |


Space.
Venus, the second planet from the sun, is
named after the Roman goddess of love and
beauty and is the only planet named after a
female.

Earth -  OUR HOME  planet, is a world


unlike any other. The third planet from the sun,
Earth is the only place in the known universe
confirmed to host life.

Mars - is the fourth planet from the Sun and the


second-smallest planet in the Solar
System after Mercury.

Jupiter – is the fifth planet from the Sun and


the largest in the Solar System.
Saturn - is the sixth planet from the Sun and the
second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.

Uranus - is the seventh planet from the Sun. It


has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-
largest planetary mass in the Solar System

Neptune - is the eighth and farthest


known planet from the Sun in the Solar System.

Pluto is an icy dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt, a


ring of bodies beyond the orbit of Neptune.

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