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Cold, Clouds, and Snowflakes

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore satellite data and graphing. In this weather data analysis math and science lesson, students analyze NASA satellite data to draw conclusions about geographical areas where precipitation might have happened. Students...
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The Koch Snowflake: Measuring and Area

For Students 4th - 8th
In this snowflakes worksheet, students cut out the given snowflakes and place them on graph paper to solve problems such as area and measurement. Students do this for 6 snowflakes.
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The Quadratic Koch Snowflake

For Students 5th - 10th
In this Quadratic Koch worksheet, students fill out a chart about the edges, edge length, total length, and different areas of a snowflake. Students do this for 8 snowflakes.
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Symmetrical Snowflakes

For Teachers 1st
First graders, exploring lines of symmetry, follow directions to create a symmetrical snowflake from their own homemade icing. As a class, they discuss lines of symmetry and determine if specific shapes are symmetrical. After the...
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How to Make a Paper Snowflake

For Students Pre-K - 2nd
In this winter activity worksheet, students follow the 9 steps provided to make paper snowflakes. The finished art project may used for various classroom activities.
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Symmetry Worksheet

For Students 7th - 10th
This resource offers a series of hands-on activities in which learners sketch and construct symmetrical origami, paper dolls, snowflakes, and polyhedra while adhering to specific requirements. These activities ask class members to...
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WATER HERE AND THERE

For Teachers K - 2nd
Introduce the topic of water conservation with a little drama. Dressed as snowflakes, hail stones, or rain drops class members dramatize the events in a narration of the water cycle. The series of lessons that follow focus on...
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Fractals Teachers' Notes

For Teachers 5th - 8th
When you see a flower or a tree in nature do you see the math? This web resource contains many ideas for using fractals in a math class including Sierpinski’s triangle, Koch's Snowflake, and the Jurassic Park Fractal. Additionally, it...
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Counting Triangle

For Students 10th
In this geometry worksheet, 10th graders calculate how many triangles there are in a snowflake design, They name the triangles by specialty such as equilateral and hexagonal.
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Number Cards One to Ten

For Students Pre-K - K
In this math worksheet, students complete activities based on number cards that range from one to ten. Each card also illustrates its number by displaying the correct number of snowflakes.
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Symmetries of Strip Patterns

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students study strip patterns and identify symmetry. They create a paper doll chain. They experiment with different shapes. They determine if their chain is a strip pattern. They create snowflakes with triangles.
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Arctic Take 6

For Students 3rd - 5th Standards
The magic number is six! Using a 6x table, young math stars practice adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing two-digit numbers with the number six. This worksheet also touches on making tessellations with hexagons. 
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Take 6

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
Investigate the various properties of the number six with this elementary math lesson. From simple addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems to the creation of hexagonal tessellations, this lesson covers all aspects of...
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Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion.

For Teachers 9th - 12th
This instructional activity introduces students to the ideas involved in understanding fractals. They develop a sense of infinity, self-similarity and recursion and
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Geometry History Lesson

For Teachers 10th
Tenth graders investigate the early history of geometry. In this geometry lesson, 10th graders investigate translations, rotations, and reflections. They also solve problems with line of symmetry and rotational symmetry while reviewing...
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Introduction to Fractals: Infinity, Self-Similarity and Recursion

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students think about several of the concepts from fractals, including recursion and self similarity. They use mathematical concepts of line segments, perimeter, area and infinity are used, and skill at pattern recognition is practiced.
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Enhancing Writing Through Technology

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
Young scholars participate in a class survey of their favorite activity to do in the snow and organize the results in a graph. They write a paragraph about the graph using language from a class-developed word web and include both an...