Space Week 2017 and Science Week 2017 merged in a flurry of drawing workshops. Hundreds of children took part in  Spectacular Cassini at Saturn. The workshop was of course inspired by the sublime images taken by the spacecraft as well as telling the story of the mission. Because I could not go to a shop and buy a Cassini spacecraft or a Huygens probe I made my own models.  Saturn and is rings was also part of my project so I made a model that could fit in my car.  It had to be light  and looked reasonably like the planet itself.  In my experience having a model of the subject in the classroom really helps to engage  children in the subject. In almost all of the workshops the children  asked to hold the spacecraft. That was fine with me but resulted in the communications dish , main engines and thrusters  falling off from time to time. A repair kit … Continue reading →