Show Students How a Snowflake is Formed
Turn your snowflake art activity into a learning experience that includes a little science and math! Kids will be naturally curious about why no two snowflakes are alike.
Show students that the way a snowflake falls determines its design.
Here is a little explanation.
The Hexagon Shape
The hexagon shape formed when water freezes is a result of the structure of the molecules.
Why Does It Have 6 Arms?
molecules start to build up on the corners.
The snow crystals pass through different humidity and temperature levels in the atmosphere as they fall.
Each snow crystal takes a slightly different path. Each path yields a different combination of shapes that form on the arms of the snow crystal.
Temperature and Humidity Affect How a Snowflake is Formed
What Do Snowflakes Actually Look Like?
Show Students How a Snowflake is Formed
If you would like more information to present to your students about how the atmospheric conditions form the design of snowflakes, I’ve made a presentation that you will get in my
How to Draw a Snowflake
In this lesson, there are also some instructions on how to draw a snowflake. Finally, students will use some math to measure the angle of the snowflake arms.
Once they’ve drawn the arms, they can add shapes to each arm using radial symmetry.
If you think your students would love learning about this information, keep reading. My Snowflake Drawing Lesson includes the information in this blog post and much more.
You will get a PDF presentation to show your students about why no two snowflakes are alike, a PDF technique demonstration, drawing handouts for students, word wall words, and assessments all in my
The Benefits of Drawing
Use this infographic to display in your room or share with parents, administrators, or other teachers as a way to point out some of the academic benefits of learning to draw. While they are not the only reason for using drawing as part of a balanced curriculum, they are certainly worthy of celebrating and may help you advocate for including drawing as part of your art or classroom learning experiences.
You can read more about The Benefits of Drawing in this blog post.
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