Reading, Writing & Rings! Mission to Saturn Educator Guide

These lessons bring together reading, writing and science. It builds good language use into the science curriculum. The lessons are grouped for grades 1-2 and 3-4. It can readily be used interchangeably as needed. The reading skills involve visualizing, questioning, defining important ideas and understanding text structures. These skills resonate with the science skills of making inferences, predictions and drawing conclusions. Learners engage in various problem-solving tasks through social interaction with others.
Lesson List:
1 What Do You Know About Saturn?
2 Where Is Saturn in the Solar System? Where am I in the Solar System?
3 Wow, Saturn Is Much Bigger than Earth!
4 Amazing — Saturn Is So Far, Far Away!
5 Reading, Writing & Rings!
6 Earth to Saturn, Earth to Saturn!
7 Rotating Rings of Ice
8 Titan and the Other Moons of Saturn
9 Focus on Saturn’s Fascinating Features
10 Awesome Saturn Students