Snow and the Number Six

Snow and the Number Six

Snow and the Number Six
Reading Level

	edHelper's suggested reading level:	grades 7 to 8
	Flesch-Kincaid grade level:	6.87

Vocabulary

	challenging words:		bare-branched, crystalColumn, hexagon, rarest, room-temperature, star-like, dendrite, Brrrrrr, prism, snowflake, capped, ragged, axle, identify, improve, furthermore
	content words:		Six-pointed Star

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Snow and the Number Six
By Brenda B. Covert

¹     If you have ever caught snowflakes and studied them, you probably wondered why most of them looked nothing like the paper snowflakes that you designed in art class. There are two reasons for this.

²     First of all, snowflakes are a collection of snow crystals - anywhere from two to 200 snow crystals per snowflake! Furthermore, there are actually six types of crystals that make up snowflakes.

³     They are as follows:

Needle - long and thin, this is the simplest type of crystal
Column - a long, hollow, six-sided prism. (There's that six again!)
Plate - flat and thin like ...uh, plates, except they are in the shape of a hexagon rather than a circle.
Column capped with Plates - sort of like an axle with a wheel on each end.
Dendrite - a crystal that looks like a tiny, bare-branched tree. Put six of these together radiating out from a center point, and you have ...
Six-pointed Star - the rarest of snowflakes