Want to make a poster and your adults or caregivers cannot help you? Try these steps.
Steps
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Get glue and scissors.
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Get some card stock.
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Cut the card stock into thin planet shapes. Make one for every planet in the solar system.
To the right is a montage of planetary images taken by spacecraft managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. Mercury, Venus, Earth (and Moon), Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune respectively. The inner planets are to scale with each other & the outer planets are to scale with each other.
- You may want to include the dwarf planets Pluto, Ceres and Eris
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Dry stick the planets on the cardboard.
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Allow the poster to dry.
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Research facts on all the different planets.
- Size (in earth masses)
- Distance from the Sun
- Climate
- Number of satellites (moons)
- Where its name came from
- Any other interesting facts
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Write the facts on your poster. You can either write the name of the planet on your planet shape and have the information next to it, or write the information on the planet if you have enough room.
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Research other features in our solar system (such as the asteroid belt, cometsand the Sun) and fill in all the empty space you have on your poster.
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Print some images from the internet if you can and stick them on.
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Write your name on it somewhere and hand it in or stick it on your wall.
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Finished.
Tips
- Use black card because it looks like space. Silver pens look great on black card too but use sparingly (e.g. for titles, subheadings and borders, not main text).
- Create rockets and shooting starts to stick on your poster.
- Make your poster really interesting by having flaps for people to lift up or different textures (tin foil is good for a space theme).
- Fill up all the space - it's not like there isn't enough to say!
Things You'll Need
- Glue stick
- Safety scissors
- Card stock
- Cardboard for background
- Old magazines or pictures of planets
