Use this Snow and Hail worksheet to review the names of snowflakes and sizes of hailstones through matching and coloring.
Snowflakes come in a large variety of shapes, but all snowflakes have six sides.
On some snowflake shapes it is very easy to see all six sides, but on other shapes it is a bit harder to see them. Here are some of the most basic shapes:
The individual pieces of hail are called hailstones.
The size of a hailstone is often described using names of common objects that are close to the size of the hailstones.
For example, pea-sized hail is the size of peas and golf-ball-sized hail is about the size of golf balls.
Hail is usually small, but it is not impossible for grapefruit or softball sized hail to fall when the weather conditions are just right!
To learn more about hail sizes, do the Naming Hailstones science project.
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