Beautiful Symmetry Winter Take & Makes: the magic of snowflakes

Activities Beautiful Symmetry šŸ
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You probably know thereā€™s a beautiful, Caldecott-winning book called Snowflake Bentley about another early snowflake scientist.

Hereā€™s a site: https://snowflakebentley.com/
The book: Snowflake Bentley (book) - Wikipedia
And a video from PBS which begins by talking about him and dives into the science: The Science of Snowflakes - YouTube

To stay scientific, the main thing is to make sure those snowflakes have 6-sided symmetry! That PBS video gets close but doesnā€™t quite get to what it is about the H20 molecule that gets it to grow in 6 directions at once the exact same way. If you find a good explainer about this, please share!

I also just found this handout a public library put together for making snowflakes in Tinkercad. I think the team at Autodesk had some educator workshop about this a few years ago I went to.

TurtleArt is sometimes used for snowflakes, and there are lots of remixable snowflake projects in Scratch.

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