Even though there are only 8 official planets in the solar system, it can be tricky to remember them all in order from the Sun. A popular technique to use a mnemonic, which can be any sentence you want using the first letter of each planet. The letters for each word in the sentence...
Here's a mnemonic to remember the order of the nine eight planets from the Sun: "My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas" The first letter of each word represents a planet - Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. ...
Earthlearningidea www.earthlearningidea.com Playground planets Modelling the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun Ask the pupils to name the planets in our Solar system from the sun outwards. It can be useful to use a mnemonic to help to remember the order. Mercury...