Snow Bank Detectives

by: Audrey C. Rule, Eric A. Olson, and Janet Dehm

Local professors teamed up with a fourth-grade teacher to show students the similarities and differences between sedimentary rock layers and snow banks. Students observed and drew snow banks and explored the effects of melting and salting on the snow banks.

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Type Journal ArticlePub Date 1/1/2005Stock # sc05_042_04_20Volume 042Issue 04

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Susan German (Hallsville, MO)
Susan German (Hallsville, MO)

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In Snow Bank Detectives, the authors use snowbanks and icicles that develop every winter due to lake effect snows as a model to explain how sedimentary rocks and stalactites form. I like ho... See More

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