The Frozen Project: a 6-year-olds study of crystals…

What happens when it snows? You study what comes down!

What did you find? Snow! But two different kinds: Wet snow which I will call snow #1 and dry snow which I will call snow #2.

First, how did you make your slides? We dumped the snow on the Foldscope. No slide. No slip cover.

What was the wet snow like? It was in very abstract shapes. It was drippy. And very hard to get a picture of before it either melted or fell of the Foldscope.

What was the dry snow like? The dry snow was amazing!!!! We saw actual snowflakes including a hexagon shape. You see, snow flakes start with drop of dust to which water drops stick. They stick in the shape of a hexagon. The longer they grow the bigger they get. Mommy showed me a picture of how the hexagon builds sticks at the corners and then adds on other hexagons. It is pretty cool.

Here are my sketches of what I saw:

Please click here for a video of the “snow #1″ pictures plus some video of it melting: http://video214.com/play/HSXn0n77WjBZXbwjxWl9bw/s/dark

Please click here for a video of the “snow #2″ pictures plus some video of us hunting for snow flakes: http://video214.com/play/fd2sN75wcXTWh293jTVYbg/s/dark

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