My Solar System — Child Tier

Most planet charts quietly lie about scale. This one doesn't — and that's the whole reason it works.

A size chart draws all eight planets at their true widths relative to one another, which is why Mercury is barely a dot beside Jupiter. A second chart does the same for distance from the Sun, with the four inner planets drawn to true scale and a clear note about why the outer four are simply too far apart to fit on one page.

What's inside — 40 pages

• True-to-scale size chart and distance chart (with inner-planet inset)
• A page on the Sun, and a full page for each of the eight planets — a line-art globe, key facts, and space to write
• Phases of the Moon, plus a seven-night moon diary
• Dwarf planets, comets and meteors
• A dot-to-dot of the Big Dipper, and how to find it for real
• Two glossary pages of the words astronomers use
• 8 cut-out planet fact cards, plus cut-out cards for ordering the planets from the Sun
• Label-the-planets and match-the-fact worksheets, size-comparison puzzles
• A colour-the-planets sheet, a space word search, a true-or-false round, and an open-book self-check quiz
• "My planet report", "design a space mission" and "draw your spacecraft" pages
• A real-world scale model walk: how far to pace out each planet if the Sun were the size of a basketball
• A full-page space colouring sheet and a certificate
• A one-page guide for the grown-up

Kind to your printer

The planets are drawn as outlines rather than solid discs, which keeps the pack honest about scale, costs almost nothing in ink, and means your child can colour them in themselves. Across the whole pack a page averages under 3% ink coverage.

Honest science, at a kid's level

No made-up numbers and no outdated ones — every fact is phrased to stay true, from planet order to real relative sizes and distances.

How it works

• Instant download — the PDF arrives by email the moment you check out
• Print on any home printer, on regular paper
• Reprint any page as often as you like

This is a digital product. Nothing is shipped to you. Because files cannot be returned once downloaded, all sales are final — but if anything is wrong with your file, email us and we will fix it.

For personal and single-classroom use. Please do not resell or redistribute the file.