Snowflake Activity Science Resources for Young Children

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Snow Science Links

"... I have found no exact duplicate. In this storehouse of crystal treasures, what a delight is in store for all future lovers of snowflakes and of the beautiful in nature."
W. A. (Snowflake) Bentley

View High Resolution photographs by Wilson "Snowflake" Bentley: and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Snowflake Links

Want to know more? Check out these Snowy Links for interesting information about Snow and Ice formation and snowflake photography.

• Video: How ice crystals grow in space (Japanese)
• How 2 Science
• Water: The Stuff that Makes Snowflakes
• Fascination of Snow Crystals Yoshinori Furukawa Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, 060 JAPAN
• A How-To Guide for Photographing snowflakes
• Schwerdtfeger Library Wilson Alwyn Bentley collection donated by University of Wisconsin's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
• Math Help Forum
• LiveScience.com How Do Snowflakes Form?
• The Snowflake: Winter's Secret Beauty Photographs of Snowflakes by Patricia Rasmussen: National Geographic News
• View the general mechanism by which snowflakes are formed American Chemical Society Web (pdf file)
• Frosted Flakes, The science of Snowflakes
• Ask a Scientist
• The Snowflake Cluster and the Cone Nebula
• Stellar Snowflake Cluster Planetary PhotoJournal
  Newborn stars are revealed in this image of the Christmas Tree cluster from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.
• No Flakes Like Snowflakes! Microsoft Teacher Guide
• Space.com: Click through a snowflake gallery
  
• Fascination of Snow Crystals How are their beautiful patterns created?
  
• National Snow and Ice Data Center
  
• How Snowflakes are Collected
  
• FEMA Winter
  
• Magono and Lee Classification of Snow Crystals
  
• Scientists See Snowflakes Like Never Before with New Microscope!
  
• Sciencet How do snowflakes form?
  
• The science behind snowflakes
  
• The Snowflake Man
  
• Science Made Simple
  
• Snowcrystals.com
  
• Koch Snowflake (Fractals)
  
• Sierpinski Triangle (Fractals)
  

• Articles Snowflake Projects
• Snowflake Classification
• Growing Snowflakes
• Snowflakes & Pollution
• Snowflake Physics
• Atmosphere Effects

• Check out Mutant Snowflakes many graphic designers are confused about how many sides snowflakes have.

Great Snow Flake Resources:

• National Weather Service
• NSISC National Snow and Ice Data Center
• Snowcrystals.com