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CD Snowman
Learners design and produce snowmen. For this winter lesson, students use CD's to create 3 dimensional snowmen. Learners discuss the senses of sight and touch as well as compare their craft snowmen to a real snowman.
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Student Exploration: Summer and Winter
In this recognizing the seasons online/interactive instructional activity, students explore the Earth's positions and determine the summer and winter season. Students answer 21 short answer questions
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How do animals survive winter?
Students make a chart about hibernation. In this hibernation lesson plan, students discuss hibernation and read about it. Then they fill in a chart about how different animals know when and how to hibernate.
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Winter Through the Arts
Students read the book The Snowy Day and discover various winter themes. In this winter lesson, students develop movements to express the feeling of a snowstorm. Students also construct winter-themed art pieces.
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My Winter Acrostic
Students create an acrostic poem about winter. In this lesson about acrostic poems, students explore acrostic poetry. Students read an acrostic poem as an example. As a class, students come up with an acrostic poem for the word "CLASS"....
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Winter Olympics 2010
In this winter Olympics instructional activity, students complete 4 pages of exercises pertaining to the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver. Students read facts about the sports, history, and traditions and answer questions about the texts.
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Season Mystery
In this seasons worksheet, students study and figure out 12 different ways they can spell the word snow by utilizing the same scenario of letters over and over again.
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Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter
For this seasons worksheet, students cut out the picture cards at the bottom of the page, sort the pictures and paste them with the matching season.
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Plant and Animal Changes
Second graders listen as the book, "What Do Animals Do In Winter?" is read to the class. They discuss that during the winter, some animals migrate, hibernate, hide, change color, and some make changes in their bodies like growing extra...
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Winter and Summer Storms Scenarios
Fourth graders discover the patterns that create summer and winter storms. Working in groups, they create model storms for summer and winter. Students discuss the reasons why summer storms and winter storms are different and explain...
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Winter Weather Day 5: Follow Up
Students participate in culminating activities for a winter weather unit. They discuss what they have learned about winter weather, and write a diamante poem using winter vocabulary words. Students also construct a pinwheel and explore...
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Here Comes Winter!
Students investigate winter behaviors in animals. They describe winter and write about the characteristics of the season by drawing and labeling a winter picture. Students then conduct research on a chosen animal and create a chart. ...
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The White Stuff, Winter in Canada
Students write sound poems inspired by works of art they have viewed, create paintings with snow as subject, create zines about their perceptions of winter, and update one of Robert Harris' winter sports illustrations.
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Winter is All Around Us
Students present what they have learned on Antartica. Students identify deciduous and evergreen trees and plants; identify and study about the habitats of animals that migrate, hibernate, and adapt; study the Aurora and Aurora Borealis...
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Winter
High schoolers explore the nature of water and water molecules. They examine the role of ice on organisms.
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World Celebrations-Focus on Christmas around the World
Sixth graders, in groups, research Christmas celebrations in countries from around the world. They follow guidelines to create PowerPoint presentations with their findings.
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Celebrate Winter!
Students understand, and participate in, both the historical and scientific aspects of this year's celebrations by introducing them to a selection of activities.
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Making The Holidays Special
Students examine ways in which holiday television specials reflect some of the religious, historic and cultural themes of the holidays on which they focus. They create their own holiday television specials in groups, each focusing on a...
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Winter Expressions
Students write a winter "shape poem," draw the outline of an object that complements the poem and copy the poem inside the outline in a pattern.
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Growing Your Own Snow Crystals
Students grow snow crystals in your classroom with a few materials and a two-liter bottle!
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Sparkly Snowflakes
Students discuss the conditions needed for snowflakes to fall. Individually, they follow directions to make their own snowflakes out of construction paper. To end the lesson, they decorate their snowflakes with glitter and hang...
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Winter Alphabet Activity
In this winter instructional activity, students explore winter words. Students are provided with ten different words that relate to winter and are to put these words in alphabetical order.
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Seasons
Ask your class if they can determine which season is being represented by each of the four seasonal slides. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter are represented with typical holiday and weather images. Tip: Use actual images that show...
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Snowflakes
Students read "The Snowy Day," by Ezra Jack Keats and construct snowflakes to decorate the classroom walls. They examine how snowflakes are formed and study new vocabulary words.