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Activity: Planet Top Trumps

Children collect ‘Planet Top Trumps’ card from locations around the school site and then use these to play ‘Planet Top Trumps’ games, based on key facts about the planets.

Summary

  1. Children work in groups and use their Enrich School Orienteering map and markers to locate specified control points around the school site.
  2. At each control point, they collect ‘Planet Top Trumps’ cards, until they have collected a full set.
  3. Groups then use the cards that they have collected to play ‘Plant Top Trumps’, based on key facts and information about the eight planets.

    Key Facts

  • Science
  • Key Stage 1
  • Earth and Space
  • Activity Sheet Download Required
  • Orienteering Control Markers Required
  • Orienteering Map Required
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