SNOWFLAKE-HAIKU     POWERPOINT LESSON

	INTERNET-Design snowflakes at the "explorescience" site
	* Students’ first time at the site will be free exploration
	* During the free exploration, let students look at each other's designs
	* Discuss what elements are needed for a snowflake design .....Interesting "points." .....Leaving "Bridges" between cut-outs .....Having a variety of cut-out shapes. .....and What is possible versus what they can "do" on the computer
	*Design snowflakes with these important elements in mind
	ART
	*Copy favorite designs on a snowflake design paper.
	*Prepare the snowflake pattern.
	*Copy a favorite design on the folded paper (use copy paper or thinner)
	*Cut out the design (school scissors will work, but sharper ones make it easier)
	SCANNER
	*Scan in their snowflake. I used a blue tissue background.
	*The image should be full size and landscape orientation
	*Save the image to a 3.5" disk. I saved two to a disk because the students will be working in pairs.
	*I typed their name as part of the file name
	LANGUAGE ARTS
	*Brainstorm winter or snow related activities or things
	*Present the Haiku format (1st line-5 syllables, 2nd line-7 syllables, 3rd line-5 syllables
	*Write a first draft, edit and present a final poem
	POWERPOINT   Each partner does the following
	*Select a blank slide
	*Insert the snowflake picture from file (It fills the entire slide)
	*Insert text box...Starting at the upper left hand corner,drag to the upper right hand corner
	*Increase font-48 Bold seems to work and choose center alignment.
	*Type the Haiku poem *Their names have a reduced font (28) and right alignment
	*Let them choose their slide transition (do not choose Flash Once)
	*Picture and text box should be animated and set for automatically after 0 sec. .....Text box-first in order of animation..their choice .....Snowflake picture-animate with crawl option *Save to the floppy disk
	*Teacher imports their slideshow presentation into one class presentation. .....Now record their readings of their poems      >Insert movies & sound..record sound .....Animate the recording (media clip) and set for automatically after 0 sec. .....Make this sound media clip the second element in the order of animation .....Check continuing the slide show while playing and stop playing after current slide .....Check hide while not playing .....I saved the entire presentation to the hard drive.  It ended up being 3.5MB
	*A large presentation device is nice to have for your "show"
	OTHER FUN SNOWFLAKE SITES
	Dave's Snowflake page - contains lots of cut paper snowflakes and full size patterns
	Wilson A. Bentley - find out about the man who produced pictures of snowflakes
	Snowflake Bentley - Book that was the Caldecott Medal winner for 1999
	Example of a slide
	Massachusetts Frameworks Curriculum Learning Strands

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