![]() ![]() You can use these tricks as a starting point and find more ways of remembering the planets that work for you. You can find more ideas on NASA’s resources for Educators. Additionally, you can have eight children act as the planets while the rest of the class tries to line them up in order. If you are looking for a group project to help a class of children learn the planets, have a contest to see who comes up with the silliest sentence to remember the planets. Here are several ideas from Pinterest on building a 3-D Solar System Model. You can buy inexpensive Styrofoam balls at your local craft store to create your model, or use paper lanterns and decorate them. Kids, ask your parents or guardians to help you with this, or parents/guardians, this is a fun project to do with your children. If so, try building a three-dimensional model of the Solar System. Memory experts say the more senses you involve in learning or storing something, the better you will be at recalling it. This works well because not only are you recalling the names of the planets but also what they look like. Or try using Solar System flash cards or just pictures of the planets printed on a page ( here are some great pictures of the planets). Whatever you decide, try to pick colors that are radically different to avoid confusing them. For example, use red for Mars and blue for Neptune. Sometimes color-coding can help aid your memory. You don’t have to be an accomplished artist to do this you can simply draw different circles for each planet and label each one. Try drawing a picture of the planets in order. If sentences, rhymes or songs don’t work for you, perhaps you are more of a visual learner, as some people remember visual cues better than words. Here are a couple of videos that use songs to remember the planets: Uranus sideways falls and along with Neptune, they are big gas balls. But if you’re a poet (and don’t know it) try this: Rhymes are also a popular technique, albeit they require memorizing more words. Jack Sailed Under Neath Every Metal Mooring.If you want to remember the planets in order of size, (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Earth, Venus Mars, Mercury) you can create a different sentence: Credit: Illustration by Judy Schmidt, texture maps by Björn Jónsson My Very Expensive Malamute Jumped Ship Up North.My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Names.My Very Efficient Memory Just Summed Up Nine.Very Elderly Men Just Snooze Under Newspapers. ![]() Mercury’s Volcanoes Erupt Mulberry Jam Sandwiches Until Noon.My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Noodles (or Nachos). ![]()
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