Comments on: Teaching about Snowflakes: A Flurry of Ideas for Science and Math Integration /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556 This blog is focused on helping elementary teachers become more knowledgeable about the polar regions and providing best practices on how to integrate polar concepts into their teaching. Ideas for connecting science and literacy through literature and writing, exemplary science activities, incredible pictures, tales of adventure, and stories of indigenous people and amazing animals will be part of each posting. Fri, 08 Mar 2013 04:09:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: noah /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1124 noah Wed, 02 Feb 2011 18:15:40 +0000 /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1124 very cool book and website very cool book and website

]]> By: joanne allen /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1123 joanne allen Wed, 15 Dec 2010 07:12:03 +0000 /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1123 THIS IS A REALLY GREAT SITE FOR ALL OF US ADULTS---AND SCHOOL KIDS---MAYBE HELPFUL FOR A WONDERFUL PROJECT !! THANK YOU SO MUCH !! THIS IS A REALLY GREAT SITE FOR ALL OF US ADULTS—AND SCHOOL KIDS—MAYBE HELPFUL FOR A WONDERFUL PROJECT !! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!

]]> By: Stephanie Chasteen /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1122 Stephanie Chasteen Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:05:10 +0000 /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1122 As a follow up to my previous comment, I just found out about a way to preserve snowflakes using superglue and microscope slides! The process and explanation is a bit long for me to post here, so I'll just point you to the blog post. What a neat classroom activity this could be (if you can keep your kids from supergluing their fingers together). http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/02/19/superglue-a-snowflake/ As a follow up to my previous comment, I just found out about a way to preserve snowflakes using superglue and microscope slides! The process and explanation is a bit long for me to post here, so I’ll just point you to the blog post. What a neat classroom activity this could be (if you can keep your kids from supergluing their fingers together).

http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2009/02/19/superglue-a-snowflake/

]]> By: Stephanie Chasteen /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1121 Stephanie Chasteen Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:08:30 +0000 /websites/expertvoices/archives/1556#comment-1121 You may be interested in one of the more popular posts on my own blog, which talks about the myth (yes, myth) that no two snowflakes are the same shape: http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2008/04/12/myth-4-no-two-snowflakes-are-the-same-shape/ One of my sources for that article hypothesized that this myth arose from the publication of a wide sample of snow crystals by Wilson Bentley (who you refer to, and show one of his lovely photographs) in 1931. Bentley only published his very best pictures, which were taking from a specific type of storm. While the final result was astounding (6000 photographs), this is not a very good sample when you consider all the snowflakes that have ever existed in the world. You may be interested in one of the more popular posts on my own blog, which talks about the myth (yes, myth) that no two snowflakes are the same shape:

http://blog.sciencegeekgirl.com/2008/04/12/myth-4-no-two-snowflakes-are-the-same-shape/

One of my sources for that article hypothesized that this myth arose from the publication of a wide sample of snow crystals by Wilson Bentley (who you refer to, and show one of his lovely photographs) in 1931. Bentley only published his very best pictures, which were taking from a specific type of storm. While the final result was astounding (6000 photographs), this is not a very good sample when you consider all the snowflakes that have ever existed in the world.

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