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Accordion BookAccordion BookSolar System
Created By: The Owl Teacher
Reading Passages Included
This craftivitywas created with the intention of briefly reviewing all parts of our solar system, such as the sun, the
planets, the moon, asteroids, comets, and meteorites. In addition to covering these science concepts, it is a great
opportunity to provide your students with practice reading nonfiction text to build fluency, vocabulary, and
background knowledge.
First print pages four through six, single-sided only. Then stack them in the order they printed and cut them in half.
Take the stack on the left and place it directly on top of the stack on the right. Your pages should be in order now
and can be stapled to form a reading guide booklet for students. You can make an entire class set, enough for
partners, or a few to place in a center.
After your students have read and discussed the solar system reading guide, provide each student with three
pieces of construction paper and a single-sided copy of pages seven through nine. Students should first tape their
construction paper end to end (landscape) like this picture:
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Then have students fold each piece of construction paper in half, back and forth like an accordion. Then
cut out each part of the solar system booklet (pages seven through nine) and glue on to each half.
Students can then color and add facts for each section based on the reading guide. Your final product
would look like this:
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Reading Guide
The outer four planets of the solar system are
know as the gas planets because they are made
up of gases.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar
system. It is so big that more than 1,300 Earth’s
could fit inside it! Even though it is so big, it can
spin very fast. It completes one rotation in just 10
hours on Earth.
Saturn is most known for having rings of rocks,
ice, and dust circling it. While other planets have
rings, Saturn has the most rings. Some pieces of
the rock and ice that spin around the planet are
the size of a house, while others are as small as
sand.
Uranus also has rings and is almost two billion
miles away from the sun. It contains a lot of
methane gas and rotates backwards like Venus.
Neptune has the stormiest weather in all of the
solar system. Some storms can be as large as the
Earth with freezing winds ten times faster than a
hurricane.
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Did you know that at the very
center of the solar system is a star
that is bigger and brighter than the
stars you see at night? That
medium sized star is our sun.
The sun is a huge ball of spinning gases that
produce a large amount of energy. This energy
creates heat and light for the solar system.
Without this heat and light, there would be no
way to survive. The Earth is a perfect distance
away. It takes eight minutes for the sun’s energy
to reach the Earth.
The sun is very hot! At the surface the
temperature is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The core is even hotter with temperatures near 27
million degrees Fahrenheit! If just one spark from
the sun was to hit the Earth, it would set fire to
everything within 60 miles of it! Luckily, that isn’t
something we have to worry about.
Generally at night when you
look up in the sky you see a
glowing sphere with the stars.
That glowing sphere is the moon – but it
doesn’t create its own light. Instead, that light
is coming from the sun.
The light from the sun bounces off the moon
and reflects back to us on Earth. That creates
the appearance of the moon glowing.
Sometimes the Earth is blocking the light a
little bit and that is what makes the moon
appear to have different shapes, such as a half
moon. The moon takes 29 1/3 days to orbit
the Earth.
All planets have a moon except Mercury and
Venus. Some planets even have multiple
moons. For example, Jupiter has 29 moons
orbiting it.
The moon is very different from Earth, as it
does not have a magnetic field. However, it
does have some “seas” of lava.
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The first four planets of the
solar system are known as the
rocky planets because – you
guessed it – they are made up
of mostly rock!
Mercury is the first of the
rocky planets because it is closest
to the sun. Since this planet is the
closest, it completes its orbit around the sun
in only 88 Earth days.
Venus is the second planet closest to the
sun and is the brightest of all the planets. It
rotates backwards and is about the size of the
Earth.
Of course, our planet Earth is the third in
line orbiting around the sun and is the only
planet that life has been found on. Since the
Earth is tilted on an axis, movement around the
sun causes seasons in many parts of our world.
The fourth rocky planet is known as the red
planet because of its red cliffs and orange sky.
Mars has enormous volcanoes.
Planets are not the only things
that orbit the sun. Comets are moving balls of
rock, ice, and dust. As comets get closer to
the sun, the ice melts and turns into a gas.
This gas forms a long tail that carries pieces
of the dust and rock.. It can be millions of
miles long.
Asteroids are large chunks of rock and
metal that can be found in space. There are
thousands of them in a belt or ring found
between Mars and Jupiter. These asteroids
are too small to be called planets.
When chunks of rock and metal found in
space are smaller than an asteroid, it is called
a meteoroid. Most meteoroids that get too
close to the Earth burn up in its atmosphere.
As it burns up, it creates a streak of light
across the sky that looks like a shooting sky.
When they do hit the Earth’s surface it is then
called a meteorite. Sometimes they will fall in
groups and create a meteor shower.
Anytime a meteor does hit the
Earth’s surface, it leaves a huge
hole called a crater.
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page 4
Reading Guide
The outer four planets of the solar system are
know as the gas planets because they are made
up of gases.
Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar
system. It is so big that more than 1,300 Earth’s
could fit inside it! Even though it is so big, it can
spin very fast. It completes one rotation in just 10
hours on Earth.
Saturn is most known for having rings of rocks,
ice, and dust circling it. While other planets have
rings, Saturn has the most rings. Some pieces of
the rock and ice that spin around the planet are
the size of a house, while others are as small as
sand.
Uranus also has rings and is almost two billion
miles away from the sun. It contains a lot of
methane gas and rotates backwards like Venus.
Neptune has the stormiest weather in all of the
solar system. Some storms can be as large as the
Earth with freezing winds ten times faster than a
hurricane.
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l Tea
cher
2015
page 5page 1
Did you know that at the very
center of the solar system is a star
that is bigger and brighter than the
stars you see at night? That
medium sized star is our sun.
The sun is a huge ball of spinning gases that
produce a large amount of energy. This energy
creates heat and light for the solar system.
Without this heat and light, there would be no
way to survive. The Earth is a perfect distance
away. It takes eight minutes for the sun’s energy
to reach the Earth.
The sun is very hot! At the surface the
temperature is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
The core is even hotter with temperatures near 27
million degrees Fahrenheit! If just one spark from
the sun was to hit the Earth, it would set fire to
everything within 60 miles of it! Luckily, that isn’t
something we have to worry about.
Generally at night when you
look up in the sky you see a
glowing sphere with the stars.
That glowing sphere is the moon – but it
doesn’t create its own light. Instead, that light
is coming from the sun.
The light from the sun bounces off the moon
and reflects back to us on Earth. That creates
the appearance of the moon glowing.
Sometimes the Earth is blocking the light a
little bit and that is what makes the moon
appear to have different shapes, such as a half
moon. The moon takes 29 1/3 days to orbit
the Earth.
All planets have a moon except Mercury and
Venus. Some planets even have multiple
moons. For example, Jupiter has 29 moons
orbiting it.
The moon is very different from Earth, as it
does not have a magnetic field. However, it
does have some “seas” of lava.
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Ow
l Tea
cher
2015
page 2 page 7
The first four planets of the
solar system are known as the
rocky planets because – you
guessed it – they are made up
of mostly rock!
Mercury is the first of the
rocky planets because it is closest
to the sun. Since this planet is the
closest, it completes its orbit around the sun
in only 88 Earth days.
Venus is the second planet closest to the
sun and is the brightest of all the planets. It
rotates backwards and is about the size of the
Earth.
Of course, our planet Earth is the third in
line orbiting around the sun and is the only
planet that life has been found on. Since the
Earth is tilted on an axis, movement around the
sun causes seasons in many parts of our world.
The fourth rocky planet is known as the red
planet because of its red cliffs and orange sky.
Mars has enormous volcanoes.
Planets are not the only things
that orbit the sun. Comets are moving balls of
rock, ice, and dust. As comets get closer to
the sun, the ice melts and turns into a gas.
This gas forms a long tail that carries pieces
of the dust and rock.. It can be millions of
miles long.
Asteroids are large chunks of rock and
metal that can be found in space. There are
thousands of them in a belt or ring found
between Mars and Jupiter. These asteroids
are too small to be called planets.
When chunks of rock and metal found in
space are smaller than an asteroid, it is called
a meteoroid. Most meteoroids that get too
close to the Earth burn up in its atmosphere.
As it burns up, it creates a streak of light
across the sky that looks like a shooting sky.
When they do hit the Earth’s surface it is then
called a meteorite. Sometimes they will fall in
groups and create a meteor shower.
Anytime a meteor does hit the
Earth’s surface, it leaves a huge
hole called a crater.
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Name ____________________________________
Three Facts About the Sun:
1.
2.
3.
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Three Facts About
The Gas Planets:
Three Facts About
The Rocky Planets:
1.
2.
3.
1.
2.
3.
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Three Facts About
The Moon:
1.
2.
3.
Three Facts About
Space:
1.
2.
3.
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