Astronomy: Stars, Planets & the Night Sky

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I'm learning "Astronomy: Stars, Planets & the Night Sky" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Our neighbourhood: the Sun and the planets".

What the lesson teaches:
- The Sun is a star. It is the centre of our solar system.
- Eight planets, in order from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. (A memory trick: "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming.")
- Inner planets (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars) are rocky, with solid surfaces.
- Outer planets: Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants; Uranus and Neptune are ice giants. They have no solid surface to stand on.
- Dwarf planets recognized by NASA: Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris.
- The International Astronomical Union reclassified Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.
- Planets vs. stars in the sky: planets shine by reflecting sunlight. Five planets can be seen without a telescope: Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Planets usually shine with a steadier light than stars, which tend to twinkle.

The exercise I'm working on:
Make a planet line in your hallway or backyard. Use 8 paper circles, one for each planet, and put them in order. Say the memory sentence out loud as you place them. Then check a free sky app or website to see which planets are visible tonight from your city.

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "Our neighbourhood: the Sun and the planets" from the course "Astronomy: Stars, Planets & the Night Sky".

Here's what the lesson says:
The Sun is a giant ball of glowing hot gas, and eight planets go around it, like kids running around a campfire. Earth is the third one from the Sun, the one with water, air and us.

The activity:
Make a planet line in your hallway or backyard. Use 8 paper circles, one for each planet, and put them in order. Say the memory sentence out loud as you place them. Then check a free sky app or website to see which planets are visible tonight from your city.

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.