Unit Resources on Snowflakes
This unit is orientated towards students in the second grade. It is also meant
to help students understand how snowflakes are made, what they look like and
the many different aspects of winter such as freezing and melting. This unit is
basically meant to introduce the different characteristics of snow.
Background Information On Snowflakes:
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This site is all about snowflakes
and how these amazingly intricate and beautiful structures develop out of thin air.
The many components of snowflakes are described here, along with
descriptions of how their formation is thought to occur, as well as the many
different classifications of snowflakes.
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This page also gives basic information on snowflakes.
This is a good page to find rudimentary knowledge of snowflakes such as birth of a
snowflakes and some of the historical facts about them.
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Art Activities with Snowflakes:
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This is a fun site that gives a complete description
in addition to diagrams on how a student can design his\her own paper snowflakes.
This is a neat site to help make a blizzard of snowflakes.
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This site is a little more interesting and less time
consuming. This site has a computer generated snowflake model, it's fun and easy.
Here you can see how a snowflake can turn out when you cut it a certain way.
This site is also helpful if your students want to design their snowflakes before
picking up the sissors and making their own.
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Here is a good idea how to integrate art with snowflakes. It's a lesson on
how to make snowflakes with glitter and sponge paint.
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Here is another idea on how to mix snowflakes and art.
This activity can be done with any type of snow and all that's needed is a couple of
spray bottles and some food coloring. These snow bank pictures can be simple or
complicated and can be useful for winter decorations.
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Math Activities with Snow:
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This page is something a little different and exciting.
It combines the winter season with math and a little bit of art. For this lesson,
a student must draw all types of winter clothing. For example, mittens, scarves,
earmuffs and socks can all be used. Then these items are used to help with the
counting by one's, two's and three's and the like. This is a great idea on how to
help students cement these math skills.
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Here is another idea that mixes math and snow. At this
students go outside in groups to build and name snowmen. Then they will help each
other measure the height, diameter and circumference of the snowmen. They will need to
record all this data so they can compare the size of their snowmen with the others.
This lesson can also be extended through the winter term by the students measuring
the snowmen weekly and comparing the changes.
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Snow Poems:
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This is a poem about snowflakes. It can be used to
incorporate Language arts with snowflakes. This poem can be acted out by the students
or the meaning can be dissected and discussed within the classroom.
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This page has poems created by students in the third
grade by using their own variations of Frank Asch's original poem, Snowflakes. As a
lesson, students can make up their own poems on snowflakes and use these samples as
a starting point. The teacher can also post these poems on the Internet like the
samples were.
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Snow Activities Mixed with Art, Math and Science
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This site contains different board games, puzzles,
math activities, snowflake decorations and crafts that can be easily printed
off and used within the classroom. This site also contains links to other webpages
that link snowflakes with other activities, such as growing snow crystals in the
classroom.
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This webpage contains a couple of snow activities such as a
scavanger hunt. It also includes some activities dealing with art and science. This
page also includes a interesting facts about snow and some literature dealing with snowflakes.
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This webpage contains lots of different
activities to do for a winter theme. This site contains many different art activities
for winter such as creating your own igloos, paper snowmen, science activities and much,
much more. This site has so many different ideas for a winter theme it's almost amazing.
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This page contains a "flurry of ideas for teachers."
This page consists of many different pages dealing with snowflakes and different
subject areas. For instance, science, math, language arts, arts and crafts, social
studies and music, just to name a couple. This page contains many different avenues
to travel while studying snowflakes.
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