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2K Richards Elementary
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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
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