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Snowflakes
Use the paint tools to make a snowflake.
Discussion points
- What is ice?
- What do you like to do when it snows?
- What shapes and patterns can you see in your snowflake?
- How is your snowflake different to someone else’s?
- What do you like to do when it snows?
- Compare your snowflake to someone else’s, what is the same and what is different?
- Can you spot the lines of symmetry in your snowflake?
- What do you like to do when it snows?
- Can you find the lines of symmetry in your snowflake?
- Can you draw a simple shape or pattern with radial symmetry?
Teaching tips:
Use with ‘Flowers’, 'Colour a bug’ and ‘Mirror magic’ for fun activities around symmetry.
Snowflakes are ice crystals which start off in clouds on freezing cold days. They begin really small and light and as they get bigger and heavier, they fall to the ground. They all have six points on them but every single snowflake is different, just like people! Snowflakes are symmetrical, which means they look the same on every side.
Snowflakes are ice crystals which start off in clouds on freezing cold days. They begin really small and light and as they get bigger and heavier, they fall to the ground. They all have six points on them but every single snowflake is different, just like people! Snowflakes are symmetrical, which means they look the same on every side.
Use with ‘Flowers’, 'Colour a bug’ and ‘Mirror magic’ for fun activities around symmetry. Children could follow this activity by completing a simple symmetric figure.
Snowflakes are frozen water droplets which start off in clouds on freezing cold days. These frozen droplets are called ice crystals. The crystals begin by forming around tiny particles in the air, like salt or dust, and, as more droplets of water freeze on them, they get bigger and heavier and fall to the ground as a flake.
A single snowflake can have as many as 200 ice crystals on it! Snowflakes are symmetrical and have six lines of symmetry. They all have six points on them but every single snowflake is different.
Snowflakes are frozen water droplets which start off in clouds on freezing cold days. These frozen droplets are called ice crystals. The crystals begin by forming around tiny particles in the air, like salt or dust, and, as more droplets of water freeze on them, they get bigger and heavier and fall to the ground as a flake.
A single snowflake can have as many as 200 ice crystals on it! Snowflakes are symmetrical and have six lines of symmetry. They all have six points on them but every single snowflake is different.
Children could use this activity to explore more about radial and rotational symmetry. The activity ‘Write about an Islamic artwork’ shows radial and rotational symmetry being used in mosaics.
Snowflakes are ice crystals which start off in clouds in freezing temperatures. The crystals begin by forming around tiny particles in the air, like salt or dust, and, as the snow crystal moves around, more droplets of water freeze on them. They get bigger and heavier and fall to the ground as a flake. A single snowflake can have as many as 200 ice crystals on it!
All snowflakes form in six-pointed shapes. Sometimes they are even hexagonal. No two snowflakes are identical to each other! Snowflakes also have 6 lines of symmetry where they are mirrored across the middle.
Snowflakes have radial symmetry, meaning that they are symmetrical around their centres with the identical parts 'radiating' outwards. Other natural forms with radial symmetry include starfish and many flowers. In geometry, the term rotational symmetry is used, meaning that a shape can be rotated less than a whole turn and appear the same. Snowflakes are said to have rotational symmetry of order 6, which means that at six different rotations they still appear the same. Other objects with rotational symmetry are wheels, orange slices, turbine blades, and the letter S.
Snowflakes are ice crystals which start off in clouds in freezing temperatures. The crystals begin by forming around tiny particles in the air, like salt or dust, and, as the snow crystal moves around, more droplets of water freeze on them. They get bigger and heavier and fall to the ground as a flake. A single snowflake can have as many as 200 ice crystals on it!
All snowflakes form in six-pointed shapes. Sometimes they are even hexagonal. No two snowflakes are identical to each other! Snowflakes also have 6 lines of symmetry where they are mirrored across the middle.
Snowflakes have radial symmetry, meaning that they are symmetrical around their centres with the identical parts 'radiating' outwards. Other natural forms with radial symmetry include starfish and many flowers. In geometry, the term rotational symmetry is used, meaning that a shape can be rotated less than a whole turn and appear the same. Snowflakes are said to have rotational symmetry of order 6, which means that at six different rotations they still appear the same. Other objects with rotational symmetry are wheels, orange slices, turbine blades, and the letter S.
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