Winter Fun
Escape Icy Winds and Snowstorms With These Cool Lessons
December and January's dropping temperatures make these months the perfect time to encourage your students' curiosity about the changing seasons. The activities below will inform your students of the wonders of snow, the harsh conditions of the Arctic, how animals cope with the winter hardships, and how to report the weather.
Articles
The Magic School Bus In the Arctic
The Magic School Bus: Science Fun Activities |
The Magic School Bus kids are freezing! When they discover that heat flows from hotter to colder things, they find ways to block heat escape routes. Kids explore how insulation works to keep in body heat.
Life in the Arctic Tundra
by Mackie Rhodes
Instructor Magazine |
January ,2004
Students learn about the unique ecosystem of the Arctic tundra, a frozen desert, through building a tundra ecosystem model, exploring the effects of wind on trees and plants with shallow roots, and other engaging activities.
Internet Field Trip: Measuring the Weather
This content resource is designed to help teachers find information on the Web on weather measurement. Suggestions for teaching ideas, related links, and a teacher's guide are all included.
A Time to Sleep
by Mackie Rhodes
Instructor Magazine |
November ,2002
These cross-curricular activities center on the theme of hibernation and come with fun hibernation facts and a book list. Students explore related concepts such as the need to conserve energy and forage for food.
Wonderful Wintertime
Teaching with Clifford |
Woof! Woof! Encourage children to learn about and understand seasonal concepts through reading, expressive language, and art. This activity gives students opportunities to make choices, express themselves, and grow in self-esteem and knowledge.
Activity Plan 5-6: Frosty Fun
by Risa Young and Robin Smith
Early Childhood Today |
January ,2007
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 math and science.
Winter Idea Exchange
Instructor Magazine |
Teachers discuss their favorite winter-time science and art activities for the classroom.
Resources
Winter Poems Extension Activities
Combine science and poetry in this lesson that explores the differences between ice and snow.
When Winter Comes Teaching Plan
by Risa Young
Children will use language, creative thinking, and social skills to create a class mural based on the book <i>When Winter Comes.
Activities
Winter storms are among nature's most impressive weather spectacles. Their combination of heavy snow, freezing rain, and high winds can totally disrupt modern civilization.
Investigate how weather is made and make a snow storm.
Lesson Plans
Forecast the Weather
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.
Winter vs. Summer
by Andrea J. Spillett
Connect science, math, and language arts through hands-on activities, including sorting summer and winter clothing, organizing ideas with T-charts, and creating collages.
Here Comes Winter!
by Jan Tankey
Students learn to track temperatures, research winter animals, and create a winter word wall that they can use as a reference tool.
A Week of Winter Weather
Familiarize students with wind, freezing points, and other aspects of winter weather through scientific investigation, vocabulary lessons, and poetry writing.
