Snowflakes

I never posted the January Four Winds lesson! It was on snowflakes. My co-teacher was savvy enough to have collected a cooler full of snow during a brief period in which we had some, so we were able to let the students do some investigations. One of these was predicting how much water would be left when an amount of snow melted. All of the students correctly hypothesized that the water level would be lower than the snow level, because of the air in the snow, but from that point on prediction accuracies varied...

We also made paper snowflakes and looked at snow with magnifiers in order to draw our observations.

There's the young gentleman looking scientific!