Winter offers a fresh start for students. This clean slate is an exciting time for teachers looking to spark curiosity through informative and fun winter-themed lessons. Engage students with these Scholastic Teachables printable packs that’ll warm up your science lessons on three favorite topics—Bears, Penguins, and Hibernation.
Each of these grab-and-go winter-themed science units include standards alignments, a complete scope and sequence guide with step-by-step instructions, and cross-curricular skill-building resources for reading, writing, and math. In short, everything you need to make teaching these winter topics easier for you and more fun for your students!
Bears Pack (Grades K–1): From the opening song to the wrap-up celebratory snack mini-book, students will have an unbearably good time learning about bears using the resources in this 39-page pack. Included in the pack are:
- A sequencing mini-book, A Gift for Bear, helps students understand how a bear gets ready to hibernate.
- Mr. Shapes Bear, a math craftivity, ties your math lessons into the topic while helping students recognize and use different shapes to create a bear.
- Winter Nap Time, a read-aloud play that helps build fluency skills as well as an understanding of what bears do in the winter.
- Leveled reading texts, writing prompts, and practice pages.
Penguins Pack (Grades 1–2): More than 50 pages are devoted to this beloved bird! Students will learn about the penguin life cycle and different habitats and conduct a hands-on science investigation to see how penguin fathers care for eggs. Also included in the pack are:
- Two dictionaries, My Book of Penguin Words and its Spanish companion, Mi libro de palabras de pingüinos, to help build content-specific vocabulary.
- The Penguin Parts Mini-Book—perfect for teaching penguin anatomy.
- Penguin Peril, a fun game that’s great for assessing students’ knowledge of penguin facts at the end of the unit.
- Reading, writing, math pages, and more.
Hibernation Pack (Grades K–1): Wake up students’ interest by teaching all about animals that hibernate with songs, leveled mini-books, games, skills sheets, and more. Compare and contrast how different animals survive cold winters, build sequencing skills, and strengthen reading, writing, and math skills. Perfect for snowy days! Resources include:
- Groundhog’s Winter, a sequencing mini-book that teaches about groundhog hibernation and order of events.
- Two read-aloud plays, Time to Hibernate and Winter Friends, to help students explore what different animals do in the winter.
- Time to Get Up!, a math activity, that helps students practice addition and subtraction using images of hibernating animals.
- Leveled reading mini-books, writing exercises, crafts, and more!
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