Learning Map
ScienceSpace Explorationusually ages 7–9

Planet Features

Describe a key feature of each planet: Mercury is smallest and closest, Venus is the hottest, Mars is red with rust, Jupiter is the largest with a Great Red Spot, Saturn has rings, Uranus tilts on its side, Neptune is the farthest and very cold

How to tell they’ve got it

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Try this together

If you named a planet, could your child tell you one interesting fact about it — like Saturn's rings or Jupiter's Great Red Spot?

Where this sits on the map

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Builds on
The Eight Planetsages 7–9Must know the planet names before learning features of each
Planet Featuresthis skill · ages 7–9
Unlocks
Space Robots & Roversages 7–9Knowing Mars features provides context for understanding what rovers are exploring

solid = must come firstdashed = helps

Curriculum alignment

Candidate matches to official curriculum codes — machine-suggested, unreviewed (v0.1).

Show candidate curriculum codes · 1 ACARA · 1 VIC

Australian Curriculum v9 candidate

AC9S2U01low confidenceYear 2 · Science understanding

recognise Earth is a planet in the solar system and identify patterns in the changing position of the sun, moon, planets and stars in the sky

Victorian Curriculum 2.0 codes & levels only

VC2S2U08low confidenceScience · Foundation to Level 2 · Science Understanding strand

These are candidate alignments generated by semantic matching — machine-suggested and unreviewed (v0.1), not official or verified mappings. For official curriculum content see australiancurriculum.edu.au, curriculum.nsw.edu.au and f10.vcaa.vic.edu.au. Don’t rely on them for registration or compliance purposes.

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