Authentic Project Ideas – Snowflakes


How do snowflakes form?  Are no two snowflakes really alike?  How in the world can you actually see the details of a snowflake?  Won’t it melt when you look at it? How in the world do you get a snowflake under a microscope?  (And I guess you need a better camera than on my cell phone to photograph a snowflake…I gave up!)

And if this turns into a craft project creating paper snowflakes, maybe discussing multiplication after each cut – if I cut one shape into four folds, what is the multiplication problem and how many shapes did I cut – mores the better!

Oh…and whose paw prints are in the snow on my patio?  (Another authentic project – classifying paw prints!)


*This was my snowflake photo…you can see why I gave up!