Making Snow Crystals

As we are in the season of winter and are expecting 

snow later this week,

today we looked at the book,

"The Story of Snow: The Science of Winter's Wonder".

The students were very interested as we learned

how snow crystals are formed.

We learned each snow flake forms

from a speck of dust, dirt, ash, salt, pollen, etc.

As the speck gets cold enough, water 

vapor will begin to stick to it. 

Six is the magic number for crystals

as that is how many branches it will sprout.

We looked at the patterns and the symmetry of snow

crystals.

We looked at many different snow crystals up close

then we got to make our own in our groups.

Here are our amazing creations!