Professional Learning: Snowflakes!
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Books about snow and snowflakes
- The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
Links to our copy in SORA - Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Links to a read aloud by Creatively Teach - Snow by Cynthia Rylant
Links to our copy in SORA
For a read aloud, click here: SNOW by Cynthia Rylant - Snow by Ann Herriges
Links to our copy in SORA - Wolf in the Snow by Matthew Cordell
Links to our copy in SORA - The Story of Snow by Mark Cassino, Jon Nelson
Links to our copy in SORA. - Over and Under the Snow by Kate Messner
Links to our copy in SORA
Hear Kate Messner read it aloud
Click here for instructions on how to fold your paper to make a paper snowflake.
The Snowy Day Read-aloud from the EJK Foundation
Ezra Jack Keats's classic story, with animation by Jay Boucher and narration and sound by Napoleon Maddox.
Wolf in the Snow Book Trailer
What do you do with them when they're done?
- What To Do With Paper Snowflakesfrom What Do We Do All Day?
- How to Make, What to do with them, and how to stiffen them...From A Piece of Rainbow
Resources
- Paper Snowflake Maker by Rectangle World
Design your paper snowflake before you cut it out!
Connections
Science:
- Weather (Series of lesson plans from University of Utah Dept of Atmospheric Sciences), (Lesson from Homeschool Scientist)
- States of Matter (This lesson from Scholastic uses snowmen as an example)
- The science of snowflakes (from It's Okay to be Smart)
Math:
- Symmetry (Lesson plan from Scholastic), (Snowflake Maker)
- Shapes & Angles (Lesson from Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears)
ELA:
- Writing / Poetry (Diary of a Snowflake Lesson plan from Creative Educator)
Computer Science/Coding:
How are Snowflakes Formed?
- TedEd - The Science of SnowflakesExplains for an older student audience why snowflakes have 6 sides.
- Getting Flake-y: Why All Snowflakes Have Six SidesA video from NASA Goddard. (1m:37s).