The Solar System

Our solar system is made up of the sun and everything that travels
around it. This includes eight planets and their natural satellites such
as Earth's moon; dwarf planets such as Pluto and Ceres; asteroids;
comets and meteoroids.

Among the eight planets are four Terrestrial planets, two gas
giants, and two ice giants.
The gas giants and the ice giants are called Jovian planets.
The terrestrial planets are the four planets closets to the sun.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars. While the Jovian planets are the
four planets farthest from the sun. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and
Neptune.

Things to know about Terrestrial Planets

All have roughly the same structure: metallic core with silicate
mantle.

All have volcanoes, canyons, craters and mountains.

Thin atmospheres around large rocky bodies.

Spherical shape
Relatively slow rotations
Lack of moons and/or satellites. Mars has two moons, and Earth only
has one. All by himself.

What about the Jovian planets?

Massive layers of gas made up mostly of hydrogen and helium
Surrounding relatively small dense rocky cores made up of giant
question marks!
No solid surfaces.
Oblong shape.
High rotations which cause the oblong shape.
All gas giants have rings.
An abundance of moons/satellites.
Saturn has 62 moons!

Like Titan for example

And Rhea

And Mimas

Heres Mimas

What about size?

How big is all this stuff?

What about distance?

While the below is a photo from the internet, it demonstrates what I did next: I assigned each student a
planet, and had them line up according to the scale distance each planet is from the sun.