Grade 4 - ESL Lesson - Solar System - Part 1 - PowerPoint Lesson

This ready-to-go lesson is designed for grade 4 learners.  This lesson was designed with Chinese in it as the L1 of the learners, but after purchase and download the PowerPoint can be edited, so all Chinese can be removed or changed into any language.

Target Vocabulary:
solar system, sun, planets, orbit, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune

Target Language:

• What planet is this? → It’s Earth.

• It’s the 3rd planet from the Sun.

• It’s a rocky / gas giant / ice giant planet.

Lesson Overview:
This interactive PowerPoint introduces students to the Solar System and its eight planets through vivid visuals, structured practice, and engaging review games. Students learn key astronomy terms in English while classifying planets by type (rocky, gas giant, or ice giant) and order from the Sun. The lesson develops both science knowledge and English fluency with natural, sentence-based speaking practice.

The lesson includes:
✅ Warm-up and rules to set a consistent classroom routine.
✅ Clear introduction to solar system vocabulary and planet names in English and Chinese.
✅ Visual planet order chart and classification by type.
✅ Multiple interactive games – Quick Say, Shooting Planets, Bull’s Eye, and Missing Planet – to reinforce understanding.
✅ Sentence-building slides to help students describe planets in full English sentences.
✅ Review section summarizing all eight planets and their characteristics.

Perfect for Grade 4 ESL science or English classes, this PowerPoint combines language learning with fun astronomy content, making it an ideal cross-curricular lesson that sparks curiosity about space.

🎥 Watch the full teaching walkthrough:
https://youtu.be/6b4ROcn8J_U

Watch the video to see the full lesson and how to teach it.

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