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What Do You Know About Saturn?
Students discuss what they know about Saturn. They create drawings to show what the planet looks like and identifies its characteristics. They write a paragraph about the planet as well.
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Titan and the Other Moons of Saturn
Students identify and describe the moons of Saturn. They sort the moons by their characteristics. They write a paragraph describing the moons to end the lesson.
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Focus on Saturn's Fascinating Features
Learners identify and discuss the characteristics of Saturn. They create a book using those characteristics. They also develop diagram to show Saturn and its moons.
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My Spacecraft to Saturn
Students discover problems that NASA must deal with on a daily basis. They work together to think of solutions and sketch their own idea of a spacecraft. They discover the concept of engineering.
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Drop Zone! Design and Test a Probe
Learners work together to develop their own parachuting probe. They test it and record the results. They simulate other experiments that are going to be carried out by the Huygens probe.
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Amazing -- Saturn Is So Far Away!
Students work together to create a scale model of the distances between the planets. They write a paragraph to describe Saturn and their make-believe trip to the planet. They identify other characteristics of Saturn as well.
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Wow, Saturn Is Much Bigger Than Earth!
Young scholars compare and contrast the sizes of Earth and Saturn. They create scale illustrations of each planet and label them. They share their models with the class.
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Rotating Rings of Ice
Students work together to develop a model of Saturn and its rings. They identify what types of materials make up the rings and how they revolve around Saturn. They write a short paragraph describing the rings.
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All About Titan and the Huygens Probe
Students examine the characterisitics of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. They discuss what they think is on Titan and what the Huygens probe can tell them about the moon. They write a summary about the information they gathered during...
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Wondering About Saturn: A Short History
Learners read an article about the history of Saturn. They complete reading comprehension tests. They examine what has been discovered on the planet.
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The Vocabulary of Space
Students build their knowledge and understanding of vocabulary related to space. In this space lesson, students discuss four categories of words and phrases related to space.
NASA
Nasa: Cassini: Mission to Saturn
NASA site details what sets Saturn apart from the other planets in our solar system and why the Cassini spacecraft mission is important.
NASA
Nasa: Cassini Solstice Mission Timeline
Interactive timeline allows user to view the entire history of the Cassini Solstice Mission to Saturn due to be completed in 2017.
University of Colorado
University of Colorado: Cassini Uvis Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph
This is the home page of the team that built the Ultraviolet Imaging Spectrograph carried by the Cassini mission to Saturn.
European Space Agency
European Space Agency: Esa Kids: Our Universe: Cassini Huygens
An introduction to Cassini-Huygen, a joint mission to investigate Saturn and its moon, Titan. Told in an animated comic format.
NASA
Nasa: Cassini at Saturn: Present Position
NASA site presents simulated images of the views from the Cassini spacecraft. Images updated on a daily basis.
NASA
Nasa Space Science Data Archive: Cassini
On its way to Saturn, the Cassini probe passed by Jupiter to pick up a gravity assisted speed boost. This resoure gained more information as it passed by Jupiter on December 30, 2000 and traveled another four years outward to Saturn.
NASA
Nasa: Cassini Huygens Mission
NASA site surveys the satellite Cassini's mission to Saturn as well as the ejection of the Huygens probe.
European Space Agency
European Space Agency: Cassini Huygens
This is the home page of the Huygens probe, which will be launched into Saturn's moon Titan's atmosphere.
PBS
Nova: Anatomy of the Rings
Thanks to the Cassini spacecraft, you can view numerous pictures of Saturn's rings. There are also answers to eleven different questions about the rings.
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Interplanetary Trajectory
An anti-cassini site protesting its launch with over 72 pounds of deadly plutonium. Site was created prior to the Cassini launch in 1977, with minor editing after the launch.
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Nasa Cassini Image: Telesto Up Close
This site archives and posts the most recent Cassini images of Saturn and its moons. Other missions and information on these objects are also posted here.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Giovanni Domenico Cassini (1625 1712)
A portrait of Giovanni Domenico Cassini from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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Smithsonian Libraries: Scientific Identity: Jean Dominique Cassini (1748 1845)
A portrait of Jean-Dominique Cassini from the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, made available through the Smithsonian Institution's Scientific Identity Collection.
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