Snow

                                   

https://www.bbc.com/bitesize/articles/zmqmrj6

What do you see in the picture?
How do you think these photos were taken?
What are they taken of?

Last weekend, snow fell in some parts of the UK. Billions of snowflakes were falling from the sky. Snow looks the same, but no two snowflakes are the same. When we look at snow falling we can't see differences but in 1885 scientist Wilson Bentley attached a microscope to a camera and realised something.

What do you think Wilson realised?

Wilson realised thar however many snowflakes were captured, none were exactly the same. They were all different.

What do you think makes the snowflakes different?

The shape of a snowflake is formed as it falls through the air. Even if two snow flakes fall side by side, they will be blown through different levels of humidity and vapour; no two journeys are exactly the same so every flake is unique.

- what is snow made of?
- why do you think snow is hard to photograph?

- what does unique mean?
- why are snowflakes unique?
- how is this like us? How are humans unique?
- "no two snowflake journeys are exactly the same" explain this
- "No two journeys are exactly the same" how does this apply to people? - are we all from the same place? Are we all the same race, do we all practice the same religion, have the same families, do our bodies work in the same ways, do we all believe the same things? Do we all have the same experiences?
- If you look at snowflakes, you often can't tell they are different. But if you take a closer look you can see there are lots of differences. Why is this like us in our school?

- why is this story about No Outsiders?
- Which British Value is this about?

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No Outsiders: We belong here by Andrew Moffat  (scheme of work for primary schools) 




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