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Students in 2K would
like to share what they have learned about an amazing man
named Wilson Bentley, a self-taught scientist who became an
important person in the study of snow and snowflakes.
We began our unit of study by
reading the 1999 Caldecott Award winning book Snowflake Bentley
by Jacqueline Briggs Martin. We learned that Wilson Bentley was the
first person to ever photograph snowflakes by using a special camera
that contained a microscope. Wilson Bentley thought that snowflakes
were a very beautiful part of nature but thought it was sad that no
one had really seen any up close. He made it his life's work to study
and photograph as many snowflakes as he could so that's how he got the
name "Snowflake Bentley".
We worked on a variety of activities
to integrate the theme of snow and snowflakes into reading, writing,
science, and technology. Our activites included reading and discussing
a variety of fiction and nonfiction books about snow, writing individual
poems and stories about snow, writing a class counting book titled A
Snow Counting Book, collecting a list of interesting facts about
snow, going outside to measure snowfall and snow temperature, using
Kidspiration to create a web to review and organize what we have learned
about Snowflake Bentley as we read his biography, and, of course, playing
in the snow!
We invite you to see
our work by visiting the links below. Let us know what you
think by signing our guest book or emailing our class. Thank
you!
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