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Winter
Snow, Blizzards

Winter in the northern hemisphere conjures up wonderful images of crisp
days, snowflakes, cotton covered trees, neighbourhoods covered in
pristine white beauty. This page offers snow related activities and will
link to other pages that are related, such as Christmas, where even more
snow-themed printables will be found. Please visit these links:

A Beautiful Winter Pictures eBook can be downloaded here.
The Snow Queen Story and related printables and downloads
Make Snow Food (The BEST site I have come across)
Simple Instructions for Folding and Cutting Snowflakes
10 Awesome snowflake Patterns & Crafts
Snow Activities
The Science Behind the Fun - Make a Borax Crystal Snowflake
Everything you need to know about Snowflakes
Everything you need to know about Blizzards
Family Disaster Planning
Family Disaster Supply

A frica S outh A frica C ountries Language Africa Map Crafts & Activities Literature A nimals

Winter Totally Explained

Make a Snowflake ~ A fun site for kids
Make a Flake is one of those sites where you can happily waste time and
bandwidth on mindless entertainment. Use their virtual scissors to cut the paper
on the screen and soon you'll have your own (virtual) paper snowflake without all
the paper trimmings on your floor. You can then save it to the gallery or email it so
others can enjoy your artwork.

Sketch of snow crystal by René Descartes

Snow Totally Explained

Did You Know?

The snowflake is often a traditional seasonal image/motif used around the
Christmas period, especially in Europe, representing the traditional 'White
Christmas'.

Snowflakes are also often used as symbols representing winter or cold
conditions. For example, tires which enhance traction during harsh winter
driving conditions are labelled with a snowflake on the mountain symbol. A
snowflake was the symbol of the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake
City, Utah.

Wilson Alwyn "Snowflake" Bentley (February 9, 1865 – December 23, 1931), born in
Jericho, Vermont, is the first known photographer of snowflakes. He perfected a process
of catching flakes on black velvet in such a way that their images could be captured
before they melted.
Snowflake photos by Wilson Bentley circa 1902 >>>

Links I Like and From where much of my research is conducted:

Program download: Global Warming: WorldWatcher, a supportive scientific visualisation
environment for geo-spatial data, is available for both Macintosh and Windows. The software
provides an accessible and supportive environment for students to explore, interpret, and
analyse scientific data in a manner which allows them to emulate the work of actual scientists.

Ice and Snow from Dragonfly Magazine
http://miavx1.acs.muohio.edu/~dragonfly/snow/index.htmlx
Learn about ice and snow and how to make an igloo and your own 'virtual' snowflake.

http://www.knowledgehouse.info/njfksnow.html
http://science.uniserve.edu.au/school/curric/k_6/weatherunit.html
http://www.nps.gov/piro/forteachers/schoolprogramspk.htm
http://www.geosociety.org/educate/resources/i_weather.htm
http://mynasadata.larc.nasa.gov/preview_lesson.php?&passid=96
Weather Unit from Scholastic - The Weather Maker is part of this page. Interactive Activities
and Lesson Plans.
http://www.nps.gov/piro/forteachers/schoolprogramspk.htm
The Weather Eye - has lesson plans on weather for all ages. Has a 'Teacher's Lounge" for activities
too.
http://nsidc.org/snow/shovel.html
http://www.cln.org/themes/blizzards.html

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