Snowflake Unit Study - Wilson Bentley PowerPoint BUNDLE

The Wilson Bentley snowflake PowerPoint unit study BUNDLE covers meteorology, snow science, history, art, geometry, and more. This multi-subject unit study will grab and hold the attention of your students during the holiday and winter season. Since 2003, I've guided my students through this favorite winter and holiday season unit study. Jericho, Vermonter, Wilson Bentley, a farmer, is best known as the first person to photograph snowflakes using an old time bellows camera hooked up to a microscope. He spent many years perfecting his technique using a turkey feather to carefully position each snowflake under his microscope. He used great patience to scratch out each and every snow crystal image to reveal their beauty and wonder!

What's Included:

1. 1 Quick Start Guide

2. 3 animated PowerPoint presentations (PPTX and PDF file options)

3. 1 Activity Guide

What Topics are Covered in the PowerPoints:

1. What are snowflakes

2. Snow - Graupel (soft hail)

3. How snowflakes form

4. Snowflake life cycle

5. How artificial snowflakes are made

6. How snowflakes grow

7. Snowflake growth - crystal size

8. What was the largest snowflake recorded?

9. Snowflake symmetry

10. Snowflake classification system

11. Life of Wilson Bentley

12. Wilson Bentley's Snow Crystal Capture Method

13. Wilson Bentley's accomplishments

14. Snowflake mathematics overview

15. Snowflake mathematics: reflection symmetry

What's Inside of the Geometric Beauty of Snowflakes Activity Guide?

1. Journal questions

2. Snowflake Observation and Sketch

3. Snowflake Video Questions

4. Snow Crystal Geometry Questions

5. Snowflake drawing

6. How to catch and observe snowflakes