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.
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 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. |
 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. |
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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... |
 Indoor Activities Wonderful WintertimeGrades: 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 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... |
Extension Activities Time to Sleep Extension ActivitiesGrades: 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 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... |
Extension Activities, Book Resources The Jacket I Wear in the Snow Extension ActivitiesGrades: 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 ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activities for Winter Is Here! by Kimberly Weinberger. |
Here Comes the Snow Discussion GuideGrades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5 Everything is bright and cold and white in this simple rhyming story about a snowy day. |
Here Comes the Snow Extension ActivitiesGrades: PreK–K, 1–2 Extension activity comparing Here Comes the Snow! by Angela Shelf Medearis and The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats. |
Articles, Online Learning Activities Seasons and SolsticesGrades: 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 SeasonsGrades: 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. |
Articles, Book Resources Books for Teaching About Fall & Winter CelebrationsGrades: 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 ActivitiesGrades: 3–5 Combine science and poetry in this lesson that explores the differences between ice and snow. |
Lesson Plans, Book Resources Cold Little Duck, Duck, Duck Lesson PlanGrades: 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... |
