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Snow slides (Science, Art)

Contributed by Deanna Barricklow, Indiana

A lesson that I use in January is to teach my 6th graders the proper way to cut paper snowflakes. I also include the idea that water freezes in a 6-sided formation, thus the need to cut 6-sided flakes. After we have all learned the proper way, I fold a 3-foot square paper into the cone shape and each child in the room, including the teacher, makes 1 cut. I then display it in the hall on a bulletin board with the message that "Working together causes beautiful things to happen." We also do a project with glass microscope slides, wooden spring clothespins, spray acrylic, and cold weather with snow. The supplies are set outside to get cold, then I spray each slide, the children capture flakes which indent on the acrylic. The acrylic sets up and we look at them through our projection microscope. This is an activity that many come back years later and remember.

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