snow

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

This week the UK is getting lots of snow; billions of snowflakes are 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 that however many snowflakes were captured, none were exactly the same. They were all 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.

The article link above explains how snowflakes are formed.

What do you see in the picture?
How are the photos taken?
explain the story

- what is snow?
- 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 form the same place? Are we all the same race, do we all practice the same religion, have the dame 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?

 No Outsiders in our school: Teaching the equality act in primary schools by Andrew Moffat

Reclaiming radical ideas in schools: Preparing young children for life in modern Britain by Andrew Moffat