2D Snowflakes

 Description: 

The lesson began with a little insight of what a snowflake is. Then, the students were shown how to create their own snowflake out of paper. We folded the papers into triangles, twice. Then, we used the teachers' templates to create shapes on our papers and then we cut them out. On the third paper, we were able to create our own desgin. Once, we cut all three snowflakes, we then glued them down on our construction paper. On our own personal snowflake, we put glue down in our own design, followed by shaking salt over it. Next, we put dots of water-color paint onto the glued salt. Lastly, we did a gallery walk sort of show-and-tell and had to write down three things we noticed between all of the snowflakes made from the class.

Extension Activity: 

An extension activity my students could do based on the project already made is to create a story that tells the journey of their snowflake. It can either be a fictional story or a non-fictional one. The main requirement is the students have a thesis statement, three events, and a closing statement.