Teaching Themes
Winter: Everything You Need
Online activities, lesson plans, discussion guides, and other teaching ideas for celebrating winter
Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities, Online Learning Activities
Winter Weather Maker
Grades: 1–2, 3–5, 6–8
Investigate how weather is made and then make a snowstorm by manipulating temperature and humidity.
Lesson Plans
Snowballs Lesson Plan
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
In this activity, students will collect mittens for a graphing activity and then donate them to a local organization.
Unit Plans
A Week of Winter Weather
Grades: PreK–K, 1–2
Students learn about winter weather through scientific investigation, vocabulary lessons, and poetry writing in this unit plan.
 Online Learning Activities Iditarod: Race Across AlaskaGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Through various online activities, students get an inside look at the annual 1,100-mile dogsled race across Alaska’s windswept tundra. |
 Everything You Need Winter Holidays: Everything You NeedGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Learn about the many different holidays that light up the winter and the ways people celebrate all around the world. |
 Articles Quick Ideas: Fun Winter Math IdeasGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 “Greater than,” “less than,” and “equal to” can be tough concepts for students to master. But not with these winter-themed games! |
 Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities Weather WatchGrades: 3–5, 6–8 These activities for students of various ages teach weather conditions through visual observation, collecting data, and analysis. |
 Book Resources, Lesson Plans Winter vs. SummerGrades: PreK–K Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects. |
 Lesson Plans Blizzard! Lesson PlanGrades: 6–8 Jim Murphy tells the story of the Great Blizzard of 1888 through the words of survivors and victims. Readers will learn about the men, women, and... |
 Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Writing Activities, Unit Plans Forecast the WeatherGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Present a lesson that requires students to analyze different weather conditions and create their very own first-person report from the eye of a storm. |
 Unit Plans Here Comes Winter!Grades: PreK–K Students learn to track temperatures, research winter animals, and create a winter word wall that they can use as a reference tool. |
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Book Resources, Books Time to SleepGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 When Bear notices that winter is nearly here, he hurries to tell Snail. Each animal tells another until finally the already sleeping Bear is... |
Extension Activities Time to Sleep Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity for Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming. |
Activity Plan 5-6: Frosty FunGrades: PreK–K 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... |
 Articles Top 5 Ways to Keep Kids Active During Winter!Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Revive students' energy and keep them motivated to learn with these get-active ideas. |
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Readers Theater Scripts In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Features a play called "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb". The play covers the theme of changing seasons (from winter to spring). |
Teachers’ Picks for Winter Craft SuppliesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Colorful, Crafty Supplies to Brighten Winter Days |
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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans The Magic School Bus In the ArcticGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 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... |
Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities, Articles Internet Field Trip: Measuring the WeatherGrades: 3–5, 6–8 This content resource is designed to help teachers find information on the Web on weather measurement. Suggestions for teaching ideas, related... |
 Book Resources, Lesson Plans Life in the Arctic TundraGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8 Take your students on an imaginary expedition to the Arctic tundra, a frozen desert ecosystem. |
Articles Snow and BlizzardsGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Where does it snow the most in the United States? What causes a Nor'easter and how often do they occur? Meteorlogists answer students'questions... |
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Articles Aurora BorealisGrades: 3–5, 6–8 Explanation of the Aurora Borealis, a magnificent, naturally-occurring, sea of light seen in the arctic sky on winter nights. |
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