Plate, needle, column, stellar dendrite. Did you know that these are names of snow crystals? Today Sophie and Nathan used puppetry to teach us that tiny specks of dust, salt, pollen, or dirt are the start of every snowflake. After the children learned some of the names of the snow crystals and how they are made, they used photographs of actual snow crystals to sort them by design. We also had fun cutting a six sided paper snowflake, and observing actual crystals with our hand lenses. Thankfully we had real snow to study!
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