Ice Globes | Winter - Snow Friend

• In this video, students will explore what happens to a bucket of snow when it is brought inside, comparing it to the fluffy snow outside.
• The characters in the animated video discover the connection between temperature and the texture of snow.
• There is a linked lesson with a lab experiment and game included below the video.
  

Positives

• The video is brief and appropriate for young learners.
  
• The characters engage students in scientific observation through story-telling.

Additional Prerequisites

• If you are going to use the full lesson, you will need to prepare a number of materials ahead of time.
  
• The video provides subtitles in English only.
  

Differentiation

• If you live in a climate with cold winters, students can monitor snow's properties throughout the week or month, logging the temperatures and textures.
• This video would fit nicely into a unit on weather or states of matter.
• Older students can discuss and predict how snow and winters might change as the climate changes.
• English language learners may benefit from slowing the video's playback speed and using closed captioning.

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