When I was a student, I had a really hard time memorizing the planets in order. I would like to share an effective method to memorize nine planets from the book ‘Master Your Memory’ by Tony Buzan.

First write the names of all the Planets in our Solar System on a piece of paper.

Now check with the order I’ve written and see if you got it right. This is the order of the Sun:

1. Mercury 2. Venus 3. Earth 4. Mars 5. Jupiter 6. Saturn 7. Uranus 8. Neptune 9. Pluto

Tony Buzan shows that it is easy to memorize things and remember them faster if we link them to a story and visualize them. Tony Buzan with his excellent ability to tell stories takes us through the following wonderful world:

Imagine that you are standing in front of the Sun. See it clearly, feel its warmth and admire its orange glow. And there is this planetary thermometer, filled with that liquid metal that measures temperature: MERCURY.

The Sun heats up and eventually bursts the thermometer. All you see are little balls of that liquid Mercury metal on the ground.

The next thing you see is this beautiful little goddess standing right next to you. What shall we call it? Yes, VENUS.

So you see Venus playing with this scattered Mercury. He finally manages to pick up one of the Mercury Globules. She launches it in a giant arc into the sky. And this lands in your garden with a big bang. Your garden is on the planet EARTH.

Due to the big hit, it affected his next door neighbor who is a little red and about to smoke. Who is this god of war? MARCH

Mars is really furious because he is about to attack you when, approaching the scene, a giant appears. Calm Mars. He has an initial J on his forehead which stands for JUPITER.

When you look at Jupiter, he’s wearing this T-shirt with the word ‘SUN’ emblazoned in gold lettering. Each of these letters represents the first letter of each of the three great Planets of the Solar System: SATURN, URANUS and NEPTUNE.

Sitting on Jupiter’s head is this barking dog named PLUTO, laughing out loud.

Now replay this fantasy in your mind and then you will see how easy it is to remember!

This definitely works. I use this story linking method when teaching young children. They enjoy the story and at the same time, as a teacher, I feel like I’m successful. You can try this method on young children at the lower level school.