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Winter Fun
Escape icy winds and snowstorms with these cool lessons.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
December and January's dropping temperatures make these months the perfect time to encourage your students' curiosity about the changing seasons. The activities below will inform your students of the wonders of snow, the harsh conditions of the Arctic, how animals cope with the winter hardships, and how to report the weather.
Included Here:
- Articles (7)
- Activities (3)
- Lesson Plans (3)
- Unit Plans (2)
Articles
Wonderful Wintertime
Woof! Woof! Encourage children to learn about and understand seasonal concepts through reading, expressive language, and art. This activity gives students opportunities to make choices, express themselves, and grow in self-esteem and knowledge.
The Magic School Bus In the Arctic
The Magic School Bus kids are freezing! When they discover that heat flows from hotter to colder things, they find ways to block heat from escaping. Kids explore how insulation works to keep in body heat.
Internet Field Trip: Measuring the Weather
This content resource is designed to help teachers find information on the Web on weather measurement. Suggestions for teaching ideas, related links, and a teacher's guide are all included.
Life in the Arctic Tundra
Take your students on an imaginary expedition to the Arctic tundra, a frozen desert ecosystem.
A Time to Sleep
These cross-curricular activities center on the theme of hibernation and come with fun hibernation facts and a book list. Students explore related concepts such as the need to conserve energy, the difficulty of foraging for frozen food, and the life cycle.
Winter Idea Exchange
Teachers discuss their favorite winter-time science and art activities for the classroom.
Activity Plan 5-6: Frosty Fun
Children create their own snowmen, and observe how long it takes for the snow to melt inside the classroom in this ready-to-use teaching idea in math and science.
Activities
Winter Poems Extension Activities
Combine science and poetry in this lesson that explores the differences between ice and snow.
Winter Weather Maker
Winter Storms: A Severe Weather and Natural Disasters Activity
Reading activities, timelines, experiments, and firsthand accounts give students get a comprehensive look at winter storms.
Lesson Plans
Forecast the Weather
Winter vs. Summer
Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects.
When Winter Comes Teaching Plan
Students will use language, creative thinking, and social skills to create a class mural based on the book When Winter Comes.
Unit Plans
Here Comes Winter!
A Week of Winter Weather
Students learn about winter weather through scientific investigation, vocabulary lessons, and poetry writing in this unit plan.
- Subjects:Winter, Winter Themes
