Exploring Your World: Satellite Paper Crafting

Our oldest group did some paper crafting of satellites last week. If paper crafting interests you, here are some sites to get patterns for paper satellites:

--this is the model we made in class--the middle age group may enjoy trying this option:  http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/index.html?tof/Missions/Ace/Model/acemodel.html

--NASA site for model satellites http://solarsystem.nasa.gov/kids/index.cfm?Filename=papermodels
--several options: http://www.papercraftsquare.com/tag/satellite

--this is an advanced model: http://www-ssg.sr.unh.edu/index.html?tof/Missions/Ace/Model/acemodel.html
--a high school level model: http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/build/

--an easier model: http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/instructions1.html

--several model options: http://oregonspacegrant.wordpress.com/2011/10/27/papercraft-spaceships-and-satellites-build-your-own-space-program/