Back in December, I wrote a post about the magical making of Faux Snow.Today, we dive deep into the blizzard of information about the real stuff that makes up our Winter Wonderlands!
There's an amazing microscopic detail to snowflakes... and Crystallography is an actual science! A great place to learn a little more about it is from Kiddle, the Kids' Encyclopedia. (Which is a wonderful new school tool too!)The video below shows how these crystallized minis form at the molecular level. (As a literal aside... there are a multitude of other videos on the YouTube right hand sidebar on this page for those of you who just can't get enough!) It also details how over 80+ years, we've gone from being able to identify 21 classifications of 121 different types!
For more on the science & beauty of snowflakes, check out the following resources as you marvel about these miniature works of art the next time it snows:
- Jacqueline Briggs Martin's book "Snowflake Bentley" (detailing the history of the man who first photographed snowflakes in the 1920s, snapping over 5000 snowflakes--never once finding a duplicate.
- ReadWriteThink's lesson plan for using "Snowflake Bentley" as a Framing Text for Multigenre Writing
- Activities for the book "Snowflake Bentley" from The HomeSchoolMom
All 3 macro photos of snowflakes from Alexey Kljatov, found at https://www.treehugger.com/natural-sciences/macro-photos-snowflakes-show-impossibly-perfect-designs.html Video from https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=9&v=-6zr2eLpduI, The book Snowflake Bentley was purposely put in quotes above to not have it compete visually with the added links. Snowflake Bentley book image from https://www.amazon.com/Snowflake-Bentley-Jacqueline-Briggs-Martin/dp/0547248296
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