The Planets

by Amy Brown Science

Price: 375 points or $3.75 USD

Subjects: science

Grades: 6,7,8

Description: This Boom Card deck contains 65 Boom Cards on "The Planets." The following topics and concepts are covered in this deck: • Measuring distances between the plants: astronomical units. • Light years and light minutes. • Two groups of planets: The inner planets and the outer planets. • Terrestrial planets and gas giants. • Rotation, period of rotation, revolution, period of revolution, surface gravity. • Students will identify each planet from a diagram illustrating the planets. • Weight and mass on different planets. • Why is a day on Mercury so long? Why is a year on Mercury so short? • Basic facts about each planet: Closest to the sun, farthest from the sun, hottest, coldest, biggest, smallest, etc. • Prograde and retrograde rotation. • The importance of liquid water on Earth. • Why is there no water on Mars? • Gas giants: The red spot on Jupiter, the rings of Saturn, the tilted axis of Uranus.