Need a fun, exciting way to help students learn content area vocabulary words? These Solar System Vocabulary Cards and Study Slips are the perfect tools for helping your students practice and master their science vocabulary. This resource includes Google Slides versions of the vocabulary mats with moveable definitions and a Google Form Quiz.

With Vocabulary Match Up Mats, students have a mat of Solar System, Sun, and Star vocabulary words and a set of definitions. Students leave the vocabulary word mat intact and cut apart the definitions. This encourages students to read each definition as they try to place the definitions on the mat with the correct term. As students practice their word knowledge again and again with these mats, their confidence and ability to define the terms grows!

The Solar System Study Slips include the term, definition, and a related image. To use as an independent study tool, students can hide the term, read the definition, and guess the word OR hide the definition, view the word, and recite the definition. I’ve included suggested games to play using the study slips.

Included in Solar System Vocabulary Mats:

✔ Solar System Vocabulary Mats (36 terms, 2 mats) + Google Slides versions

✔ Solar System Study Slips

✔ Suggested Games and Game Boards

✔ Directions for Preparing Vocabulary Mats and Study Slips

✔ Multiple Choice Quiz + Google Form Quiz version

✔ Fill-in-the-Blank Quiz

✔ Terms include:

Mat 1

• universe
• solar system
• galaxy
• star
• planet
• dwarf planet
• gravity
• revolution
• axis
• orbit
• day
• year
• inner planets
• asteroid belt
• outer planets
• solar eclipse
• moon
• lunar eclipse

Mat 2

• sun
• corona
• chromosphere
• photosphere
• convection zone
• radiative zone
• nuclear fusion
• solar flare
• sunspots
• comet
• asteroid
• nebula
• meteoroid/meteor
• blue giant star
• pulsar
• red giant star
• supergiant
• supernova

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