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Emphasizes the central message of what it means to be a scientist: curiosity, persistence, and passionate exploration of the unknown, and how scientific contributions benefit others. 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This is a description to help you prepare to teach the book and be clear about what you want your children to take away from the work.\nBig Ideas/Key Understandings/Focusing Question\nWhat does it mean to be a scientist?  One key takeaway is that a scientist is someone who is curious and purposefully, persistently, and passionately explores the unknown.  A scientist contributes knowledge that benefits the understanding of others.\nSynopsis\nWilson Bentley dedicated his life to capturing the extraordinary beauty of snowflakes and he was determined to share the beauty with others.  His photographs reveal two important truths about snowflakes.  First, that no two are alike and second, that each one is surprisingly beautiful.\nGo to the last page of the lesson and review “What Makes This Read-Aloud Complex.” This was created for you as part of the lesson and will give you guidance about what the lesson writers saw as the sources of complexity or key access points for this book. You will of course evaluate text complexity with your own students in mind, and make adjustments to the lesson pacing and even the suggested activities and questions.\nRead the entire book, adding your own insights to the understandings identified.  Also note the stopping points for the text-inspired questions and activities. Hint: you may want to copy the questions vocabulary words and activities over onto sticky notes so they can be stuck to the right pages for each day’s questions and vocabulary work.\nConsider pairing this series of lessons on Snowflake Bentley with a text set to increase student knowledge and familiarity with the topic. A custom text set can be found here. Note: This is particularly supportive of ELL students.\nNote to teachers of English Language Learners (ELLs): Read Aloud Project Lessons are designed for children who cannot read yet for themselves. 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