Right to Life - Perimeter School

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E-Day
Resource
E-Day Topic Resource Page
Grade 2 Topic
Right to Life
Brief Overview/objective:
This topic occurs on Right to Life Day… some years it will be taught by the classroom
teachers; some years it will be taught by parents. Right to Life is a challenging topic with many
complex issues – many of which are not appropriate for 6 and 7 year old students… and if they
are appropriate, they should be discussed between parents and children at home rather than
at school. Therefore, Right to Life Day in Lower Elementary will be a discussion of God. We will
explore with the children His amazing, creative, intimate love in creating each person…
individually… in His image… with great intention, value and worth. We have provided an entire
lesson for you… please teach this lesson as it is written without additional commentary on
conception, abortion or your personal views on any of the topics surrounding Right to Life Day.
Both 1st and 2nd grades will study Genesis 1 and Psalm 139. First Grade will study
fingerprints and Second Grade will study snowflakes as expressions of His creative majesty and
power… and examples of His intimate care for each of us.
Perimeter School holds to the Biblical truths in Genesis 1 and Psalm 139. We are
• created by the hand of God
• made in the image of God
• fearfully and wonderfully made
• knit together in our mother’s womb
• individually made and dearly loved.
We pray this will be a wonderful, joy-filled study of His great creative power, His majesty, and
His great love for us. If you have any questions, please contact E Day Coordinator, Wendy
Williams, or Lower Elementary Principal, Rebecca Little. Thank you for your faithfulness to the
Lord, the children and one another.
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Objectives: By the end of this class the students will know the following truths about life
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Every person is created by God for His honor and glory.
Every person is created unique – one of a kind
Every person is important to God
PERIMETER SCHOOL E-DAY RESOURCE
last updated 1.8.2016
E-Day Topic Resource Page for
Right to Life
Introduction: Hold up a poster or model of a snowflake. Ask the students what they know
about snowflakes.
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It has to be cold for snow
They melt
Etc…. make a good long list
Procedure:
Ask: Did you know that scientists believe that no 2 snowflakes that are exactly alike?
Ask: Do you know what shape snowflakes form?
(see attached information sheet to get you started)
Ask: Do you know how snowflakes form?
(see attached information sheet to get you started)
Ask: Does God have a purpose for snow? Read Isaiah 55 together.
Ask: What does the Bible say about people?
Note: This is a good exercise in cross referencing. You may want to explain that when
we find scripture in the Old and New Testaments that has the same meaning, it is called a cross
reference.
Find and read:
Genesis 1:26 – 28 (Created in God’s image)
Genesis 2:7 (God made man – by hand - and breathed life into him. Different than all other
creation)
Genesis 5:1,2
Psalm 119:73
Colossians 1:16 (God is creator if visible and invisible, born and unborn)
Acts 17:24 – 25 (God is creator)
Ask: If a snowflake’s purpose is to water the earth, what is man’s purpose?
Teach Westminster Confession of Faith
Q. What is man’s purpose?
A. To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.
Matthew 28:19 - 20
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Lesson:
Ask: If a snowflake is so unique and there are no duplicates, do you think God created you to
be like everyone else or are you unique?
Ask: What are some things that make you one of a kind?
Let students share their thoughts.
Make a list on the board.
Read Aloud: Snowflake Bentley by Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Use the supplemental book of Bentley’s snowflake photographs to show the children the
variety and beauty of snowflakes!
Activities: Have one parent supervising the first two activities while another does the
snowflake experiment, calling the children one at a time.
Activity 1: Have each child copy the following poem in his/her best handwriting:
I’m a child of God
I’m uniquely made
Look a little closer and see
His handiwork in me.
Or Psalm 139:13-14
For you formed my inward parts;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made
Wonderful are your works;
my soul knows it very well.
Have lots of circles of white paper or coffee filters ready for the children to make “snowflakes.”
(Make a variety of sizes. See attached instructions for making snowflakes with 6 points (that’s
the way they are created!) Cut out small diamonds, circles, squares, etc. in the edges. Unfold
to make snowflakes!
Let each child pick their favorite “snowflake” and glue both the snowflake and the poem to a
sheet of 12x 18 black construction paper. This is a large sheet… you could cut the sheets to be
more 10 x 12 or 11 x 14 if desired.
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Activity 2: Snowflake “Memory”
Using photos from the Bentley snowflakes book made into cards, have the children play a
matching, memory game in groups of 2 or 3.
(Cards are provided in the Resource Cabinet for each class.)
Activity 3: Snowflake experiment
See the attached experiment entitled “Real Crystal Snowflake” This experiment will take
several days to complete – and will be ready for the children when they return to school on
Monday. Please store the experiment out of reach of the Sunday School classes who will be
using the room over the weekend.
Closing/ Application:
Ask: Did God make all people unique and special?
What about the handicapped? The disabled? The poor?
Your task – to come up with an application of this topic with a redemptive, ministry-minded
focus. “Snowflake Bentley” used his gifts, abilities and passion to capture the beauty of
snowflakes for the world to see. God gifts each of us… and then calls us to love and serve
others. We want the children to have their hearts pricked to see their value, gifts and unique
abilities … and then begin to ask God how He would want to use them for His purposes; for
His honor and glory!
Find Scriptures that would show God’s heart for the poor, the widows, the orphans, the least
and lost. Matthew 25:40
Find ministries or individuals who are using their gifts and abilities to make a difference in
the world. Tell at least one story to inspire the kids. Here are a few to get you started:
Joni Eareckson Tada at Joniandfriends.org
Compassion International or Perimeter’s Project CHILD
Smile Train
Close in prayer thanking God for His amazing creativity, beauty and majesty. Thank Him for
each child in the class – by name. Thank Him for the person or ministry you’ve chosen to
highlight and pray for them. Pray for God’s leading in each child’s heart and life – and that
they would pursue Him and His purposes for them. Jeremiah 29:11
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Studies related to the topic for study on your E Day:
Science: Water cycle or snow cycle. This cycle is a great way to share the cycle of salvation,
growth and fulfilling the Great Commission
Math: Symmetry
At home: create snowflakes on the computer at:
www.popularfront.com/snowdays
www.zefrank.com/snowflake
Writing: Acrostic poems using the words SNOWFLAKES or UNIQUE
Language Arts: Diamond poems using words about God’s creation.
Great information on snowflakes can be found on
www.snowcrystals.com
Snowflakes grow from water vapor
Snowflakes are not frozen raindrops. Sometimes raindrops do freeze as they fall, but
this is called sleet. Sleet particles don't have any of the elaborate and symmetrical
patterning found in snow crystals. Snow crystals form when water vapor condenses
directly into ice, which happens in the clouds. The patterns emerge as the crystals
grow.
Why snow crystal shapes change so much with temperature remains something of a
scientific mystery. The growth depends on exactly how water vapor molecules are
incorporated into the growing ice crystal, and the physics behind this is complex and not
well understood. It is the subject of current research in my lab and elsewhere.
The life of a snowflake
The story of a snowflake begins with water vapor in the air. Evaporation from oceans,
lakes, and rivers puts water vapor into the air, as does transpiration from plants. Even
you, every time you exhale, put water vapor into the air.
When you take a parcel of air and cool it down, at some point the water vapor it holds
will begin to condense out. When this happens near the ground, the water may
condense as dew on the grass. High above the ground, water vapor condenses onto
dust particles in the air. It condenses into countless minute droplets, where each
droplet contains at least one dust particle. A cloud is nothing more than a huge
collection of these water droplets suspended in the air.
In the winter, snow-forming clouds are still mostly made of liquid water droplets, even
when the temperature is below freezing. The water is said to be supercooled, meaning
simply that it is cooled below the freezing point. As the clouds gets colder, however,
the droplets do start to freeze. This begins happening around -10 C (14 F), but it's a
gradual process and the droplets don't all freeze at once.
If a particular droplet freezes, it becomes a small particle of ice surrounded by the
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remaining liquid water droplets in the cloud. The ice grows as water vapor condenses
onto its surface, forming a snowflake in the process. As the ice grows larger, the
remaining water droplets slowly evaporate and put more water vapor into the air.
Note what happens to the water -- it evaporates from the water droplets and goes into
the air, and it comes out of the air as it condenses on the growing snow crystals. As the
snow falls there is a net flow of water from the liquid state (cloud droplets) to the solid
state (snowflakes). This rather complicated chain of events is how a cloud freezes.
The rest of the story
Alas, there's so much more to the story -- it simply cannot fit here on a single page
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Paper Snowflakes
Below is a diagram of the first five steps to make a paper snowflake. (If you have made the 6 - Point Star Paper Relief these are the same five steps except in the last step the cut is made as shown below.) Begin
with a square sheet of paper and in the first step, fold it on the diagonal. Continue through the other steps.
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When making additional cuts for
the snowflakes, the point E forms
the 6 points of the star or
snowflake and the point D forms
the center of the star or
snowflake. (If you choose to cut
off D, a hole will be in the center.
If you choose to cut off E, the tips
will have more points!)
Make cuts leaving a 'path'
from E to D. Then open to
reveal snowflake. The
snowflake can be flattened or
made into a relief by folding
the 12 creases from the center,
alternating in and out (as
shown with the 6 point star).
Shown below are different
snowflakes made from
different cuts.
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Enchanted Learning Software's
Real Crystal Snowflake
More Kinder Crafts
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Winter
Crafts
Make an amazing snowflake from real crystal (borax). This is a
beautiful project (and also demonstrates some basic principles of
chemistry).
Supplies needed:
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Wide mouthed jar
3 white pipe cleaners
String
Scissors
Pencil
Boiling water (have an adult do this part)
Spoon
Borax (called 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster - the product called Boraxo will
NOT work)
Optional: blue food coloring
Make a giant snowflake frame from 3 white pipe cleaners and
string. Twist the 3 pipe cleaners together in the center to make
a 6-sided, spiky figure.
Make sure this figure fits inside the wide-mouthed jar.
Tie the string around the pipe cleaners to look like a snowflake
shape. Trim the excess string.
Tie a few inches of string to one of the pipe cleaners. Tie the other
end of the string to a pencil, so that the snowflake will hang from
the pencil and dangle inside the jar.
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Take the snowflake out of the jar.
Pour boiling water into the jar (have an adult do this part).
Add the 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry Booster to the hot water in
the jar.
Keep adding the Borax until you have a supersaturated solution (you
will see undissolved Borax at the bottom of the jar). You'll have to
add about 3 tablespoonfuls of the 20 Mule Team Borax Laundry
Booster to each cup of hot water in the jar.
Optional: Add a few drops of blue food coloring for a bluish
snowflake.
Hang the snowflake in the jar and wait at least overnight.
In the morning, your snowflake will be covered with beautiful
crystals.
As the supersaturated solution cools, the borax comes out of
solution (less of the borax can dissolve in cool water) and forms
crystals on the pipe cleaners and string.
You can do the same type of project using supersaturated sugarwater and a string, making edible rock candy (but the crystals take
longer to form).
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