Free printable space worksheets
Seven sheets from the Earth, Sky & Space book: day and night, weather, land and water, comparing living things, Orion's belt as a join-the-dots, and the eight planets in order from the Sun, drawn at true relative size. The order is right and there are eight of them.
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What is on the sheets
Print at actual size (100%), not "fit to page". The target sizes on these pages are chosen for a particular age of hand, and scaling shrinks them.
Using them well
Go outside first
Look at the actual moon, then find its shape on the sheet. Every page in this book is better after the real thing.
Name it, find it, then recall it
Point and say "this is Jupiter." Later, "show me Jupiter." Later still, "which one is this?" Three steps, not one.
It is fine not to finish
Seven sheets is seven sittings for a four-year-old.
Guides that go with these
Teaching the solar system to a 4–6 year old, accurately
Young children can handle accurate astronomy. What they cannot undo easily is a misconception learned at five.
For grown-upsHow to sit beside a child doing a worksheet
The most challenging part of an activity book is not on the page. It is sitting there while a four-year-old gets it wrong.
How we make themWhy our activity books are printed in black and white
The research behind it, the one finding that argues against it, and what the child gets in return.
Where these came from
These are 7 pages out of 100.
Day and night, weather, land and water, living things, the moon and stars, and the eight planets, drawn accurately. Eight planets, correct order, true relative scale on the line-up, current NASA naming, and Pluto named as a dwarf planet where it appears at all. A four-year-old cannot check this. A seven-year-old can.
