If you're getting bored (?!) of sledging and snowman-building, have a go at one of these geographical snow challenges:
1. Measure the depth of undisturbed snow in different places - how and why does it vary?
2. Collect a cup of snow... Bring it inside and let it melt. How much water does it produce? Is this more or less than you expected?
3. If you have a thermometer at home, keep a record of the temperature... How does it change? Why? Keep a record of the times when it’s snowing... Watch the sky and how it changes... How do the temperature, the weather conditions and the state of the sky relate to each other?
4. Choose a particular spot – somewhere in your garden... or out of your bedroom window. Take a photo every hour. Put them together in MovieMaker to make a timelapse movie... (Email me the finished product, or upload to Vimeo or YouTube and email me the link.)
5. Wrap up warm and put your wellies on... Then go for a walk. Put together a snow/ice/cold weather hazard map for your local area.
6. Find some black paper and freeze it. When it snows again, take your frozen black paper outside and catch some snowflakes. Look at them carefully (with a magnifying glass if you have one). Describe them. Have a go at taking some photographs of them.
7. Make a glacier... Send me photos and/or video...
8. What does the snow look like? Feel like? Smell like? Sound like? (Taste like? H&S!!)
9. Make a geographical sculpture... The Eiffel Tower? The Taj Mahal?
10. Make some icicles or freeze some bubbles...
11. Go follow some footprints in the snow... Who or what made them?
12. Make a Frozen Earth video - Grace in Yr11 made a fantastic Urban Earth style video in January, taking photos every 8 steps on a walk through her snowy village... Upload it to Vimeo or YouTube and email me the link.