# Beautiful Symmetry Winter Take & Makes: the magic of snowflakes

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You probably know there’s a beautiful, Caldecott-winning book called _Snowflake Bentley_ about another early snowflake scientist.

Here’s a site: [https://snowflakebentley.com/](https://snowflakebentley.com/)  
The book: [Snowflake Bentley (book) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_Bentley_(book))  
And a video from PBS which begins by talking about him and dives into the science: [The Science of Snowflakes - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUot7XSX8uA&t=1s)

To stay scientific, the main thing is to make sure those snowflakes have 6-sided symmetry! That PBS video gets close but doesn’t quite get to what it is about the H20 molecule that gets it to grow in 6 directions at once the exact same way. If you find a good explainer about this, please share!

I also just found this handout a public library put together for making [snowflakes in Tinkercad](https://carmelclaylibrary.org/images/pdfs/carmel/dml/activities/tinkercad_snowflake.pdf). I think the team at Autodesk had some educator workshop about this a few years ago I went to.

[TurtleArt](http://joshburker.blogspot.com/2013/12/turtleart-snowflakes.html) is sometimes used for snowflakes, and there are lots of remixable snowflake [projects in Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=snowflake).

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