Lesson Seven – Solar System Quiz

This science teaching pack for Key Stage Two gets the children to practise devising and recording questions for a class quiz to test general knowledge about some different concepts related to space and celestial objects.

The class can research and record information to use when selecting questions about Earth’s position in space and how it orbits around the Sun in space.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise devising and recording questions for a class quiz to test general knowledge about some different concepts related to space and celestial objects

Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to support understanding of key facts about space for the class to identify technical vocabulary and a worksheet to identify and record a range of different true and false facts about space and the Solar System.

The interactive presentation can be used to explore how to devise questions for a class quiz to test general knowledge about different concepts related to space.

This lesson is part of a science scheme of work to get the children to describe the movement of the Earth, and other planets, relative to the Sun in the Solar System by using practical models and researching information. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

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