Order of the planets

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A mnemonic is a sentence or phrase that helps us to remember a set of words in a specific order. It uses the same first letter as the words we are trying to remember.

In this activity, students are given a mnemonic for remembering the order of the planets (without dwarf planets like Pluto). They then practise making up their own mnemonics.

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