Saturn Activities
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Saturn Lessons:
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #10 What Do I See Now When I Picture Saturn?
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: To reflect on what they have learned, students repeat the exercise that they did at the beginning of the unit in lesson 1. Students draw everything that they picture when they hear the words "Saturn" and "Cassini", add labels and captions to their drawings, and look back at their first exercise and compare the two. They end the lesson by sharing their work with a partner. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #11 Pulling It All Together
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students will organize notes to prepare to write one of the following types of nonfiction for their final piece: descriptive, compare and contrast, or summary. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #12 Celebrating Saturn and Cassini
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: For the final lesson, students will use prewriting notes to write a nonfiction piece about Saturn or Cassini. These final projects provide a way for children with varying learning styles to consolidate and share their learning. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #2 The Mysteries of Saturn and Cassini
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: The students will look at pictures of Saturn, the Cassini spacecraft and the Huygens probe and write what they notice, know and wonder. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #3 Wondering About Saturn: A Short History
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students hear a read-aloud of the history of Saturn discoveries. Next, they learn two reading comprehension strategies (visualizing and wondering) that they can use to become more powerful readers of non-fiction text. Finally, students share their work with partners and the class. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #4 How Far Away Is Saturn?
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students use simple props to create a playground model for size and distance for the sun, Earth and Saturn. Writing activities engage students in reflecting on experience and in comparing and contrasting. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #5 Discovering Saturn, The Real "Lord of the Rings"
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students extend and enhance their current understandings about Saturn by reading a series of Saturn minibooks, and learn a note-taking technique that will help them better understand nonfiction text. They use their notes for descriptive writing and to compare and contrast with new information learned. For the final activity, students build 3-D models of Saturn and its rings. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #6 My Spacecraft to Saturn
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students work with partners to think of solutions to problems that the NASA team faced when designing a spacecraft to travel to Saturn. They use these ideas to sketch their spacecraft. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #7 My Spacecraft and Cassini
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students hear how NASA solved the design problems that they wrote about in the previous lesson. Students write a nonfiction piece comparing their spacecraft to Cassini, and share these pieces with the class. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
Reading, Writing and Rings!: (Gr 3-4) #8 All About Titan and the Huygens Probe
Topic: Language Arts and Science
Grade Level: K-4
Body: Saturn
Mission: Cassini (Saturn)
Short Description: Students listen to a narrative "told" by the Huygens probe. Visualization and drawing are used as motivators to enhance comprehension and to get students thinking about Titan and what we might find there. Next, they read an article about Titan and the Huygens probe and write a summary. This series introduces science into a reading and writing curriculum.
