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Hello Angelica, my name is Karen reading your question really caught my eye because my elementary sciene teacher would always give us fun activities that had to do with the solar system. For example, one of them was going outside and with the chalk we would draw the solar system in order with the help of a visual, this way we would see the solar systems as big as possible and colorful which would help us remember the solar system. Our science teacher always let us know that it was important to memorize the planets in order so she would have us memorize them by color and name so when she would call on us we would already know with what planet the solar system started with.

Hi Angelica. In my field experience classroom, my mentor teacher taught a unit on the solar system. She did a wonderful job with this and had her students do modeling of a solar system through a home project in which she gave two weeks to complete. I think that if I was going to teach, I would do this same thing, but I would have each student do a worksheet on each individual planet to give students an insight on each planet's characteristics. This way, they know the biggest planet, the smallest, which planet is the hottest, the coldests, so on so forth. Videos are so plentiful and finding one shouldn't be hard for the introduction to the unit. TPT also has some great worksheets and activities for students to learn about the planets, their moons, etc.