Lesson video

- Hello everybody.

My name's Miss Hughes.

What's your name? Great to meet you all.

Today, I'm going on an adventure up out of the world and into outer space.

Will you come with me? Great.

Then stand up step, into your rocket, and help me blast off in three, two, one, blast off.

Wow! Look, we're in outer space.

Can you see all of the stars around us? I think I can even see a planet twinkling in the back.

In this lesson, we're going to learn all above outer space and understand some features of our solar system.

There will be three lessons on space.

The first with me, the second with Miss Sidenius and the third with Mrs Garrard.

Going to need your brain because being astronaut is a very important and difficult job.

You're going to need some coloured pencils and some plain paper and a pencil.

Pause the video here.

Get what you need and restart when you're ready.

Great.

Now, we're back in our spaceship ready to learn about space.

So, let's think about what parts of space we already know about.

Well, think about what you can see when you look up in the sky.

Maybe you can look out of your window now.

Tell your screen, what can you see in the sky? Here are some things that we see.

In the daytime, we see the sun in the sky.

We also see the moon in the night and the stars and those things are outer in outer space.

But what is outer space? Well, we live on planet Earth.

Everybody point to planet Earth on the screen.

Planet Earth is made up of land and water, and it is where we live.

Everything that's beyond planet Earth is part of outer space.

So that includes the planets, the moon, and the sun.

There are some things we see in the sky that's a part of Earth like clouds.

They are not part of outer space.

But the planets, moon, sun, and stars are part of outer space.

They are beyond Earth.

And we live in the solar system.

My turn, the solar system.

Your turn.

The solar system is part of outer space.

It's made up of eight planets and one star.

And that star is called the sun.

Wow! And all of those eight planets orbit the special sun.

They go round the sun like this.

So, what did we say the sun was? Tell your screen.

The sun is a? That's right.

The sun is a star.

The sun is a? And it's just the only star in our solar system.

All of the other stars that we see are much further away.

So all of the planets orbit around, they travel around the sun, but let's look at what the planets are.

There are eight all together.

The first planet is mercury.

Your turn.

Mercury.

And mercury is a very hot planet.

Because it is the closest planet to the sun.

Mercury is hot.

Great job.

I could see you joining in with the actions.

Then we have Venus.

Your turn.

Venus.

And Venus is a very bright planet.

Sometimes when you look up to the sky at night you can see it shining.

Let's do it together.

Venus is a bright planet.

Then we have this planet.

Do you know what this is? It's planet Earth.

Your turn.

Planet Earth.

And planet Earth is where we live.

We live on planet Earth.

Great job.

Then we have Mars.

And Mars is a red planet.

So I want you to find something red.

I've got a pen, and point to it as we say, Mars.

Mars is the red planet.

Then we have Jupiter.

Your turn.

Jupiter.

And Jupiter is the biggest planet.

So I'm making my hands go really far apart.

Jupiter is big.

Well done.

Then we have Saturn.

You turn.

Saturn.

And Saturn has the most rings around it.

Saturn has the most rings around it.

You can see this has one ring around it here.

Saturn.

Your turn.

Then we have Uranus.

Your turn.

Uranus.

And Uranus spins on its side.

It spins on its side.

My turn.

Uranus.

Your turn.

Great.

And finally, we have Neptune.

You turn.

Neptune.

And Neptune is the windiest planet.

My turn.

Neptune.

Neptune.

Great.

That was a lot to remember.

So don't worry if you can't remember all of the planets.

We have lots of ways that we can remember them through rhymes and songs.

I like to remember the planets by thinking, My Very Easy Method Just Summed Up Now.

And the start of each of those words is at the start of the name of each of the planets.

You might know a different song or you can ask your grown up if they know one.

But let's think about them one more time with our action.

The solar system has one star, which is called the sun.

Then it has eight planets.

It has Mercury the hot planet.

Venus the bright planet.

Say them with me.

Earth the planet we live on.

Mars the red planet.

Jupiter the big planet.

Saturn the planet with the rings.

Uranus the planet that spins.

And Neptune the windiest planet.

Pause the video here and see if you can remember an action for each planet.

Well done.

Now it's your turn to practise drawing the planets in our solar system.

So first, you can draw the sun, which is a star.

Then you can draw Mercury, Venus.

Say them with me.

Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.

Now, if you'd like to, please ask your parent or carer to share your work on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter tagging @OakNational and #LearnwithOak.