Practice noticing that planets are big, round objects in space that move around stars.
Read each problem with a grown-up if needed. Write, circle, color, or draw your answer.
Learning what planets are and how they look
Astronomy - Grade K-1
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A planet is a big, round object in space. Circle the word that names the planet we live on: Earth, Sun, Moon.
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Circle the object that is shaped most like a planet: ball, box, pencil.
- 3
Fill in the blank: Planets are big and ____.
- 4
Draw a circle to show the shape of a planet.
- 5
Look at the picture. Count the planets. Write the number.
- 6
True or false: A planet is flat like a piece of paper.
- 7
Color the planet Earth with blue for water and green for land.
- 8
The Sun is a star. Planets move around the Sun. Draw a line from the planet to the path around the Sun.
- 9
Circle the planet that has rings around it.
- 10
Fill in the blank: Planets are in ____.
- 11
Circle the thing that gives us light in the daytime: Sun, Earth, backpack.
- 12
A planet does not make its own bright light like a star. Circle the star: Sun, Mars, Earth.
- 13
Draw one planet in space. Add stars around it.
- 14
Look at the picture. Circle the biggest planet.
- 15
Write or say one thing you know about planets.