This primary resource introduces children to ideas about our solar system, to help them understand more about the size, scale, time and relative motion within it. How many stars is the Milky Way made up of? What vegetable have astronauts grown in space? What animals have been to space?
Pupils will have the opportunity to consider Earth's place within the Solar System and the Universe in our National Geographic Kids' Space primary resource sheet.
Activity: Ask children to further research some of the facts included in the resource. Pupils could use their research to write a factsheet about their favourite fact on the sheet.