Explore the Solar System with Space Explorers
Hands-On Solar System Units and Space Activities for Curious Learners
Turn your space science lessons into an exploration students will remember.
Space Explorers is a growing collection of printable solar system units that takes learners beyond disconnected worksheets. Through engaging reading, science investigations, hands-on STEM, vocabulary, critical thinking, and interactive review, students explore the Sun, planets, and the science that connects our Solar System.
Use each mission as a complete unit, choose individual activities to complement your curriculum, or combine the missions to create a larger elementary space study.
Why Educators Choose Space Explorers
Complete, Flexible Units
Teach the full mission or select individual readings, activities, and investigations to fit your schedule.
Learning Beyond the Worksheet
Hands-on STEM, science investigations, critical thinking, and interactive review help learners apply what they discover.
Made for Real Classrooms and Homeschools
Clear instructions and flexible activities make the missions useful for classrooms, co-ops, and family learning.
Explore the Solar System Missions
Begin with our nearest star, travel to the planet closest to the Sun, and continue exploring as new missions launch. Each Space Explorers unit combines science content with meaningful activities designed to build both knowledge and curiosity.
The Sun Space Science Unit
Explore the layers of the Sun, discover how it supports life on Earth, investigate gravity and distance, learn how NASA studies our nearest star, and complete a hands-on Solar Oven STEM Challenge.
49 printable pages • Reading • Investigations • Harnessing Solar Energy STEM • Vocabulary • Kahoot
Mercury Space Science Unit
Investigate Mercury’s extreme temperatures, unusual day and year, cratered surface, place in the Solar System, and the spacecraft scientists use to study the planet closest to the Sun.
49 printable pages • Reading • Investigations • Speed of Mercury STEM • VocabularyÂ
🚀 More Missions Are Preparing for Launch
Venus, Earth, Mars, and additional Solar System missions are coming as the Space Explorers collection grows.
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