Y5 All about Mars

Pupils use reference books and the internet to find out all about the planet Mars.




Learning Objectives:

  • PoS - describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the solar system
  • NaG - pupils should learn that the Sun is a star at the centre of our solar system and that it has eight planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune (Pluto was reclassified as a ‘dwarf planet’ in 2006)
  • WS - pupils could create simple models of the solar system

This resource is available in the below packages.