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Winter: Everything You Need

Online activities, lesson plans, discussion guides, and other teaching ideas for celebrating winter

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Snow Much Fun Printable Activity

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Snow Much Fun Printable Activity

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Books Wish List

Grades: 1–2

Books Wish List

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Today's Temperature Record Sheet

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Today's Temperature Record Sheet

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Online Learning Activities

Iditarod: Race Across Alaska

Grades: 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.

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Computer Lab Activities, Interactive Whiteboard Activities

Weather Watch

Grades: 3–5, 6–8

These activities for students of various ages teach weather conditions through visual observation, collecting data, and analysis.

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Articles

The Inspiration of Insulation

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

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Book Resources, Books

Time to Sleep

Grades: 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...

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Indoor Activities

Wonderful Wintertime

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Woof! Woof! Encourage children to learn about and understand seasonal concepts through reading, expressive language, and art. This activity gives...

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Activities and Games, Lesson Plans

The Magic School Bus In the Arctic

Grades: 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...

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Extension Activities

Time to Sleep Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activity for Time to Sleep by Denise Fleming.

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Articles, Computer Lab Activities, Online Learning Activities

Internet Field Trip: Measuring the Weather

Grades: 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...

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Extension Activities, Book Resources

The Jacket I Wear in the Snow Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activities for The Jacket I Wear in the Snow by Shirley Neitzel.

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Writing Activities

Winter Is Here! Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activities for Winter Is Here! by Kimberly Weinberger.

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Here Comes the Snow Discussion Guide

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5

Everything is bright and cold and white in this simple rhyming story about a snowy day.

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Here Comes the Snow Extension Activities

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Extension activity comparing Here Comes the Snow! by Angela Shelf Medearis and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats.

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Articles, Online Learning Activities

Seasons and Solstices

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12

Why is it hot in the summer and cold in the winter? Tour the Web for a look at the science behind seasonal changes.

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Articles, Book Resources

Books for Teaching Months of the Year and Seasons

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Teach about the different months and seasons of the year with this teacher-created book list, which includes tips for classroom use.

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Articles, Book Resources

Books for Teaching About Fall & Winter Celebrations

Grades: 1–2

Browse this book list for holiday reference books, activity books, how-to books on crafts, and discussion starters.

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Extension Activities, Book Resources

Winter Poems Extension Activities

Grades: 3–5

Combine science and poetry in this lesson that explores the differences between ice and snow.

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Lesson Plans, Book Resources

Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck Lesson Plan

Grades: PreK–K, 1–2

Duck returns to her pond while the weather is still cold. When she is told to return to a warmer place, Duck thinks of the best things about...

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