Teacher: Jennifer G.

Manrique
Date: April 21, 2021
Subject/Grade Level: Science 5
Materials:
 1 basketball, 1 soccer ball, 2 softballs, 2 ping pong balls, 1 jacks ball, 1 marble (or any
alternatives)
 8 pieces of cardboard
 marker
 visual aids
 chalk
 laptop/projector
Lesson Objective(s):
This lesson enables the learners to:
a. identify the planets and the other objects in the solar system,
b. determine the right order of the planets from the Sun, and
c. explain the importance of a solar system.

Teacher’s Activities Student’s Response

I. Engagement

Good morning class! Good morning Ma’am, good morning

classmates!

Before anything else, let’s have first a prayer.
Kindly lead the prayer, Annica.
Now, arrange your chairs properly and take
your seats.
“Thank you God for this new day. In my
school to work and pray. Please be with me
all day long. In every story, game and song.
May all the happy things we do, make You,
our Father, happy too! Amen!”
Thank you Ma’am.

Class, how are you today? We’re doing good Ma’am.

Glad to hear that. Is everybody present? Yes Ma’am, no absences for today.

Okay, let’s begin.

(draws a sun and eight planets on the board)

Class, all eyes on the board. Can you tell me Sun
what do you see? Planets

Very good class! You’re all correct. This is

what we call the “Solar System”. To know
more about this, let’s watch a video entitled
“The Planet Song”. I want you to get your
notebooks and jot down information
regarding the solar system and the different
planets.

(playing it a few times)

Okay class, you’re done watching it. Mercury

Now, what are the eight planets in the solar Venus
system? Can you name it all? Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Awesome!
II. Exploration

Now, let’s have an activity. I will divide the

class into two groups.

For Group 1,
 Using different balls to represent the
planets, you will arrange them in order
based on the video you have watched
earlier. A basketball will represent
Jupiter, soccer ball is for Saturn, two
softballs for Uranus and Neptune, two
ping pong balls for Earth and Venus,
one jacks ball for Mars and one
marble for Mercury. But you can use
any alternatives.
 On your notebook, draw pictures of
the planets with their specific names
and arrangement.

For Group 2,
 Choose 9 students on your group. One
 student will be the sun while the rest
will represent the eight planets. I will
give each of the eight students a piece
of cardboard with a name of a planet
on it. The remaining students in the
group must arrange their groupmates
in a line in the right order. Then, they
will physically move around the sun.
 On your notebook, draw pictures of
the planets with their corresponding
names and arrangement. Yes it’s fun! We have learned that planets
come in different sizes and have their specific
order in the solar system.
What can you say about this activity? Did you
enjoy it? To learn that planets differ in sizes.
To know the proper arrangement of the
planets from the sun.
What do you think is the purpose of this
activity?
No.
Precisely!
But did you know that there are other objects
that make up the solar system, aside from the
sun and the planets?

Then, let’s find them out.

III. Explanation

Please get your notebooks and write down the

following definitions.

Class, when we say,

Solar System – the collection of eight planets
and their moons in orbit around the sun,
together with smaller bodies in the form of
asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.

Planet – a celestial body moving in an

elliptical orbit around a star.
The planets of the solar system are (in order
of distance from the sun) Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune.
For you to easily remember the planet’s
relation to the sun, you can use a trick of
simply memorizing the sentence, “My Very
Energetic Mother Just Served Us Nachos”.
My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us
Students, repeat after me. Nachos.

The first letter of each word in that sentence

represents the name of a planet in relation to
the sun. So it goes like this:
M - Mercury
V - Venus
E - Earth
M - Mars
J - Jupiter
S - Saturn
U - Uranus
N – Neptune Yes Ma’am.
My Very Energetic Mother Just Served Us
Do you understand? Nachos.
Alright! Edward, can you recite the trick and M - Mercury
tell me the corresponding planets for the first V - Venus
letter of each word? E - Earth
M - Mars
J - Jupiter
S - Saturn
U - Uranus
N – Neptune
1,2,3 (clap loudly one time)
Very good, Edward! Let’s give him a power
clap.

In our solar system, astronomers often divide

the planets into two groups – the inner
planets and the outer planets. The four inner
planets (in order of distance from the sun,
closest to furthest) are Mercury, Venus,
Earth and Mars. They are called terrestrial
planets because their surfaces are solid (and
as the name implies, somewhat similar to
Earth). They are made up mostly of heavy
metals such as iron and nickel, and have
either no moons or few moons. After an
asteroid belt comes the outer planets Jupiter,
Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. Sometimes
called Jovian planets or gas giants, they are
huge planets swaddled in gas. They all have
rings and all of plenty of moons each.
Mercury – the smallest planet in our solar
system and closest to the Sun – is only
slightly larger than Earth’s Moon. Mercury is
the fastest planet, zipping around the Sun
every 88 Earth days.
Venus – spins slowly in the opposite
direction from most planets. A thick
atmosphere traps heat in a runaway
greenhouse effect, making it the hottest planet
in our solar system.
Earth – our home planet – is the only place
we know of so far that’s inhabited by living
things. It’s also the only planet in our solar
system with liquid water on the surface.
Mars – is a dusty, cold, desert world with a
very thin atmosphere. There is a strong
evidence Mars was – billions of years ago –
wetter and warmer, with a thicker
atmosphere.
Jupiter – is more than twice as massive than
the other planets of our solar system
combined. The giant planet’s Great Red Spot
is a centuries-old storm bigger than Earth.
Saturn – adorned with a dazzling, complex
system of icy rings, Saturn is unique in our
solar system. The other giant planets have
rings, but none are as spectacular as Saturn’s.
Uranus – seventh planet from the Sun –
rotates at a nearly 90-degree angle from the
plane of its orbit. This unique tilt makes
Uranus appear to spin on its side.
Neptune – the eight and most distant major
planet orbiting our Sun – is dark, cold and
whipped by supersonic winds. It was the first
planet located through mathematical Yes Ma’am!
calculations. Stars
Moon
Let’s move on to the other objects located in
the solar system.
Have you already watched a clear night sky?
What do you usually see from up above?

Yes, that’s all correct. Stars and moons are

also part of our solar system. These are the
shimmering things that we see on a dark night
sky. Many other stars are visible to the naked
eye at night, but due to their immense
distance from Earth, they appear as fixed
points of light in the sky.

Star – a fixed luminous point in the night sky

which is a large, remote incandescent body
like the Sun.

Moon – is defined to be a celestial body that

makes an orbit around a planet, including the
eight major planets, dwarf planets, and minor
planets.

It is the brightest and largest object in our

night sky, and makes Earth a more livable
planet by moderating our home planet’s
wobble on its axis, leading to a relatively
stable climate. It also causes tides, creating a
rhythm that has guided humans for thousands
of years.

Other than that, there are also asteroids,

meteoroids and comets.

Asteroid – also called minor planet or

planetoid, any of a host of small bodies,
about 1,000 km (600 miles) or less in
diameter, that orbit the sun primarily between
the orbits of Mars and Jupiter in a nearly flat
ring called asteroid belt.

Meteoroid – is a solid natural object of a size

roughly between 30 micrometers and 1 meter
moving in, or coming from, interplanetary
space.

Class, did you know that when meteoroids

enter Earth’s atmosphere (or that of another
planet, like Mars) at high speed and burn up,
the fireballs or “shooting stars” are called
meteors. When a meteoroid survives a trip
through the atmosphere and hits the ground,
it’s called a meteorite.

And for the last one,

Comets – are cosmic snowballs of frozen
gases, rock and dust that orbit the sun.
In addition,
Orbit – is a regular, repeating path that one
object in space takes around another one.
It is the gravitationally curved trajectory of
the planets, as they revolve around the sun.

IV. Elaboration

What do you think is the importance of a solar Our solar system hosts the sun at its center – a
system? star so large that its gravitational pull keeps
Anyone? numerous planets, comets, and meteoroids
orbiting around it.
Impressive!
Why should we study and explore the solar  To help the scientists answer questions
system? about its formation and how it reached
its current diverse state.
 To know how life evolved on Earth
and possibly elsewhere in the solar
system, and what characteristics of the
solar system lead to the origins of life.
Well-done, class! You’re all doing great.
V. Evaluation

For your activity, draw the solar system on a

short bond paper. Thereafter, label the planets
in order of their distance from the Sun. You
may also color it if you want.

You may start now.

Before ending this lesson, let’s have a short

quiz. Get a piece of paper and answer the
following questions. Read and understand it
carefully. Write only the letter of the correct
answer.
Answers:
1. It is the collection of eight planets and their 1. A
moons in orbit around the sun, together with 2. C
smaller bodies in the form of asteroids, 3. B
meteoroids, and comets. 4. D
A. Solar System 5. B
B. Planet 6. A
C. Orbit 7. D
D. Galaxy 8. B
2. Which planet is farthest from the Sun? 9. B
A. Mercury 10. C
B. Earth 11. A
C. Neptune 12. My very energetic mother just served us
D. Jupiter nachos.
13. Mercury
3. Which planet is nearest to the sun? 14. Venus
A. Saturn 15. Earth
B. Mercury 16. Mars
C. Mars 17. Jupiter
D. Earth 18. Saturn
19. Uranus
4. A celestial body moving in an elliptical 20. Neptune
orbit around a star.
A. Asteroid
B. Star
C. Comet
D. Planet

5. Arrange the following planets in ascending

order of their distance from the sun.
I. Jupiter
II. Venus
III. Mercury
IV. Mars
V. Earth
A. I, V, IV, II, III
B. III, II, V, IV, I
C. III, II, IV, V, I
D. I, IV, V, II, III

6. It is the hottest planet in our solar system.

A. Venus
B. Uranus
C. Jupiter
D. Mercury

7. They are cosmic snowballs of frozen gases,

rock and dust that orbit the sun.
A. Asteroid
B. Stars
C. Moon
D. Comets

8. It is a fixed luminous point in the night sky

which is a large, remote incandescent body
like the sun.
A. Moon
B. Star
C. Meteoroid
D. Orbit

9. It is Jupiter’s centuries-old storm bigger

than Earth.
A. Ceres
B. Great Red Spot
C. Titan
D. Ganymede

10. A planet adorned with a dazzling,

complex system of icy rings.
A. Venus
B. Uranus
C. Saturn
D. Jupiter

11. The only planet in our solar system with

liquid water on the surface.
A. Earth
B. Neptune
C. Mars
D. Saturn

12. What is the sentence used to easily

remember the order of the eight planets in the
solar system?

13-20. Name all the eight planets in the solar

system.

Assignment:
Choose a planet in our solar system. Research
and answer the following questions below.

Planet Name:
Number of moon(s):
Name of moon(s):
Planet Temperature:
Distance from Sun: Goodbye Ma’am! Thank you for the lesson
What is the planet made of? today, God bless us.
Draw and color your planet below. Be sure to
include any moons.
That’s all for today. Kindly stand up
everyone. Goodbye class!