Jennefer@SSA Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 I am putting together my lesson plans for astronomy. I have found a poem (kinda cheesy) and several mnemonics as well. What have you done that was a success? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amtmcm Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 (edited) We have an old Blues Clues video with a great planets song - my kids can still sing it after 6 years. My DD also says this one: My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto Edited June 21, 2009 by amtmcm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whitestavern Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 We used My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas. My kids still remember it well!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nutmeg Posted June 20, 2009 Share Posted June 20, 2009 My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nachos :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohsmom23 Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We used My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas. My kids still remember it well!! This is what I learned in elementary, and I still remember it over 20 years later so it worked well for me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FO4UR Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Put them up on the wall (a representation of some kind....balloons, drawings, etc....obviously not the actual planets LOL:tongue_smilie:) and name them. My 6yo learned them easily this way. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Conley Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We bought a cheap model of the solar system and put it up in his room. Each planet was labeled. After we did that, he pretty much remembered. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elizabeth Conley Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Mind you, he helped us put it up, read the instructions, interpreted the instructions and labeled the planets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lolly Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We have an old Blues Clues video with a great planets song - my kids can still sing it after 6 years. My DD also says this one: My Very Education Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto We used My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Nine Pizzas. My kids still remember it well!! This is what I learned in elementary, and I still remember it over 20 years later so it worked well for me! Only now you need to leave out the P on the end. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 Sorry, I'm not much of a mnemonic person, so this may not be helpful BUT anything to do with the solar system is of great interest at my house.... I have to say, my kids just memorized it straight, on their own, after looking at many diagrams and reading many books, most particularly the Let's Read and Find Out book on the Solar System many, many times. I read one book (a Cat in the Hat variety) that had a mnemonic (Mallory Valorie Emily Meetzahs just served us nine hundred ninety-nine pizzas) -- and my kids didn't seem to get the point of that... and of course, that includes P for Pluto which is now a dwarf, so be careful! ;) I think doing things like making a diagram of the solar system, with each planet's orbit, and possibly even the moons for each, is really fun and helps them visualize it, especially if you go through the qualities of each planet. I can honestly say that I learned a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKS Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We just said it a bunch of times (it's only 8 words) and they knew it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haiku Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We never bothered with mnemonics or songs or anything. I just had my kids memorize them by reciting them. There's not that many, it's not that hard. Just like SWB says about other things in TWTM, if you recite them everyday, it only takes a week or so to remember them. Same with the days of the week and the months of the year. I wouldn't break a sweat about how to teach them. Your kids will pick them up regardless. Btw, the problem I have always had about mnemonics goes something like this: I memorize Kings play chess on fat girls' stomachs, and I have memorized a useless phrase and still haven't memorized the taxonomy. I still have to memorize the words kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, and species. Then I have to try to match those words to their corresponding word in the mnemonic. It seems like the long way around, kwim? Tara Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mom2boys Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We have an old Blues Clues video with a great planets song - my kids can still sing it after 6 years. We love that song too! Oh, the sun's a hot star.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amtmcm Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We love that song too! Oh, the sun's a hot star.... And Mercury's hot too! :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Catwoman Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 (edited) We have an old Blues Clues video with a great planets song - my kids can still sing it after 6 years. :iagree::iagree::iagree: Let's see if I can remember it... The sun's a hot star... and Mercury's hot, too... Venus is the brightest planet and Earth's home to me and you... Mars is the red one, and Jupiter's most wide... Saturn's got those icy rings, and Uranus spins on its side... Neptune's really windy, and Pluto's really small. Well, we wanted to name the planets and now we've named them all. I love that little song! :tongue_smilie: And Blue's Clues hasn't been the same since Steve left. ;) Cat Edited June 21, 2009 by Catwoman Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphabetika Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 We used Geography Songs (CD with a booklet that uses songs to teach world geography), as well as making models of the planets that still hang in our schoolroom 8 years later. My younger dd, who was 2 when older dd was studying this, can still sing the song, and so can we all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in St Louis Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 :iagree::iagree::iagree: Let's see if I can remember it... The sun's a hot star... and Mercury's hot, too... Venus is the brightest planet and Earth's home to me and you... Mars is the red one, and Jupiter's most wide... Saturn's got those icy rings, and Uranus spins on its side... Neptune's really windy, and Pluto's really small. Well, we wanted to name the planets and now we've named them all. I love that little song! :tongue_smilie: And Blue's Clues hasn't been the same since Steve left. ;) Cat Yep, this is the song we learned and the feelings we have about Steve. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stephanie78 Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I really like the book Planets: A Solar System Stickerbook Please do no think it's a stickerbook, it is a real nice hardcover book with lots of neat information about the planets, and the story is told in the form of a poem. The book itself is perfect to be read to a younger child. However, last year we did Apologia Astronomy and as we learned about each planet we memorized that part of the poem. By the end of the year they had memorized the entire poem, and it really helps them to remember the planets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I have that sticker book. The binding on my copy is awful, though; the pages are popping off the sewn part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neesek Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I came upon this site a few months ago . It uses the new classifications of 8 planets and 3 dwarf planets. Here you go: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/SpaceScience/Planet-song Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
********* Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 :iagree::iagree::iagree: Let's see if I can remember it... The sun's a hot star... and Mercury's hot, too... Venus is the brightest planet and Earth's home to me and you... Mars is the red one, and Jupiter's most wide... Saturn's got those icy rings, and Uranus spins on its side... Neptune's really windy, and Pluto's really small. Well, we wanted to name the planets and now we've named them all. I love that little song! :tongue_smilie: And Blue's Clues hasn't been the same since Steve left. ;) Cat Seriously, we just watched this movie the other day. It's a favorite around here. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nukeswife Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I bought a set of blow up planets and used Evan Moors Scienceworks for kids As we worked through the book we hung a each planet. It was a lot of fun and the kids still remember them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jennefer@SSA Posted June 21, 2009 Author Share Posted June 21, 2009 Thanks so much everyone! What great ideas. I can't wait to put them into our plans for next year. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen in PA Posted June 21, 2009 Share Posted June 21, 2009 I came upon this site a few months ago . It uses the new classifications of 8 planets and 3 dwarf planets. Here you go: http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/Stories/SpaceScience/Planet-song Thanks for this! We just checked the accompanying book out of the library, and I hadn't even looked through it yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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