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Can Teach

Can Teach: Songs and Poems

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This site features an extensive list of poems and songs for every event during the school year. Explore the seasons, colors, holidays, and more.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: What Makes It Rain?

For Students 3rd - 8th
or snow or sleet? Check out this concise explanation and illustration of the water cycle.
Interactive
NASA

Sci Jinks: Grow Snow Crystals

For Students 3rd - 8th
Discover how snowflakes are created. Use this interactive to recognize the role temperature plays in the formation of snow crystals.
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NASA

Sci Jinks: How Do Snowflakes Form?

For Students 3rd - 8th
Is it true that no two snowflakes are alike? Take a look at the details that make up a snowflake to find out if the statement holds any truth.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Stuck in the Snow

For Teachers K Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little girl and her father when their car gets stuck in the snow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Sudden Slice of Summer

For Teachers 3rd - 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This fiction piece shares the story of a little girl and her dream of summer coming. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Snowy Town

For Teachers 3rd
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a boy named Johnny who takes his dog for a walk on a snowy day. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Staying Dry in the Snow

For Students 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about a ten-year-old girl who made an invention to keep hands dry when playing in the snow. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Snow Science!

For Students 2nd Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about how snow forms and about different types of snowflakes. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Let It Snow!

For Teachers 4th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about snowflakes and a scientist who photographs and studies them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works

Read Works: Cool Prize

For Teachers 4th - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] The photographing of snowflakes is the topic of this informational text passage. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes...
Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Cool Prize

For Teachers 5th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This nonfiction passage gives information about the prize-winning photos of Kenneth Libbrecht and classifications of snowflakes. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills....
Lesson Plan
Utah Education Network

Uen: Weather Walks

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
In this multi-day, students will learn weather through multisensory approaches. Students will make daily predictions. After each daily prediction, they will collect measurement and observational data by taking walks in different types of...
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NBC

Msnbc: The Science Behind Snowflakes

For Students 9th - 10th
This MSNBC article was written by David Ropeik. It discusses the formation of snowflakes and contains photos.
Handout
Other

Special Needs Opportunity Windows

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
SNOW is an online provider for both teachers and parents of children with special needs. A wealth of resources are offered to meet a wide variety of needs.
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National Snow and Ice Data Center

Nsidc: Snow Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Resource provides extensive information about snow.
Handout
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: What a Blizzard Needs

For Students 4th - 8th
Learn the three ingredients that make a large snowstorm or blizzard.
Handout
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Snowflakes

For Students 2nd - 8th
Learn about snowflakes and how they are formed.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Earth Science: Global Wind Belts

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Describes how regional differences in solar radiation create global wind belts.
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abcteach

Abcteach: Similes [Pdf]

For Teachers 1st - 4th Standards
This printable worksheet tutorial tests your knowledge of writing snow similes.
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Special Olympics

Special Olympics: Alpine Skiing

For Students 9th - 10th
The Special Olympics provides information on alpine skiing and a coaching guide.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Snowstorm Clues

For Students K - 1st
Explore how weather can change during snowstorms in this slideshow produced by WGBH. The images show the progression of snowstorms from a light flurry to a steady snow to a blizzard to conditions after a storm ends. Students can use the...
Article
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

Ucar: Why Does Climate Change?

For Students 5th - 9th
Factors that have the power to change global climate can be natural, like volcanic eruptions and changes in solar energy, or caused by humans, like the addition of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere.
Handout
Center for Educational Technologies

Nasa: Classroom of the Future: Spheres Atmosphere

For Students 9th - 10th
Atmosphere is briefly discussed here as one of earth's "spheres."