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Winter: Everything You Need
Online activities, lesson plans, discussion guides, and other teaching ideas for celebrating winter
Snowballs Lesson Plan
PreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Literature | Charts and Graphs | Counting and Numbers
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Iditarod: Race Across AlaskaGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Content Area Reading | Independent Reading | Online Learning Activities Through various online activities, students get an inside look at the annual 1,100-mile dogsled race across Alaska’s windswept tundra. Save To Organizer |
Winter Holidays: Everything You NeedPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Everything You Need | Christmas Learn about the many winter holidays that light up the season. Save To Organizer |
Quick Ideas: Grades 1-2PreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Addition and Subtraction | Charts and Graphs Wonderful Winter Craft Ideas! Save To Organizer |
Weather WatchGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Computer Lab Activities | Interactive Whiteboard Activities | Research Skills These activities for students of various ages teach weather conditions through visual observation, collecting data, and analysis. Save To Organizer |
Winter vs. SummerPreK–K | Content Area Reading | Guided Reading | Literature | Writing Activities Students learn about winter and summer through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing and writing projects. Save To Organizer |
Blizzard! Lesson PlanGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Reading Comprehension | Reading Response | Lesson Plans Jim Murphy tells the story of the Great Blizzard of 1888 through the words of survivors and victims. Readers will learn about the men,... Save To Organizer |
Forecast the WeatherGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Computer Lab Activities | Online Learning Activities | Writing Activities Present a lesson that requires students to analyze different weather conditions and create their very own first-person report from the eye... Save To Organizer |
Here Comes Winter!PreK–K | Unit Plans | Research Skills | Spelling | Early Writing Students learn to track temperatures, research winter animals, and create a winter word wall that they can use as a reference tool. Save To Organizer |
Time to SleepPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Book Resources | Books | Animal Hibernation and Migration When Bear notices that winter is nearly here, he hurries to tell Snail. Each animal tells another until finally the already sleeping Bear... Save To Organizer |
Time to Sleep Extension ActivitiesPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Literature | Extension Activities | Arts and Creativity Extension activity for Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming. Save To Organizer |
Activity Plan 5-6: Frosty FunPreK–K | Counting and Numbers | Early Math | Early Science | Scientific Method and Process 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... Save To Organizer |
Top 5 Ways to Keep Kids Active During Winter!PreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Articles | Hobbies and Recreation Revive students' energy and keep them motivated to learn with these get-active ideas. Save To Organizer |
A Week of Winter WeatherPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Activities and Games | Unit Plans | Vocabulary Familiarizes students with aspects of winter weather, such as wind, through scientific investigation, vocabulary lessons, and poetry... Save To Organizer |
In Like a Lion, Out Like a LambPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Reading | Listening Comprehension | Readers Theater Scripts Features a play called "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb". The play covers the theme of changing seasons (from winter to spring). Save To Organizer |
Teachers’ Picks for Winter Craft SuppliesPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Arts and Creativity Colorful, Crafty Supplies to Brighten Winter Days Save To Organizer |
The Magic School Bus In the ArcticPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Activities and Games | Lesson Plans 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... Save To Organizer |
Internet Field Trip: Measuring the WeatherGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Computer Lab Activities | Online Learning Activities | Articles This content resource is designed to help teachers find information on the Web on weather measurement. Suggestions for teaching ideas,... Save To Organizer |
Life in the Arctic TundraPreK–K | Grades 1–2 | Grades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Book Resources Take your students on an imaginary expedition to the Arctic tundra, a frozen desert ecosystem. Save To Organizer |
Snow and BlizzardsGrades 3–5 | Grades 6–8 | Articles | Snow | Winter Where does it snow the most in the United States? What causes a Nor'easter and how often do they occur? Meteorlogists answer students'... Save To Organizer |
Aurora BorealisGrades 6–8 | Grades 3–5 | Articles | Sun | Light Explanation of the Aurora Borealis, a magnificent, naturally-occurring, sea of light seen in the arctic sky on winter nights. Save To Organizer |














