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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snowflake Bentley

For Teachers 3rd - 4th
Students explore crystals through the story Snowflake Bentley and then create crystal pictures of their own. In this interdisciplinary lesson plan, they create a crystal web chart on chart paper, design artificial snowflakes, and write...
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Activity
PBS

Reading Adventure Pack: The Snowy Day

For Parents K Standards
Scholars listen to a read-aloud of fiction and nonfiction books, The Snowy Day, written and illustrated by Ezra Jack Keats, and Snow Is Falling, written by Franklyn Branley and illustrated by Holly Keller, then take part in four creative...
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American Chemical Society

What Makes It Snow?

For Teachers K
Discover the icy world of snow from the comfort of the indoors. Young meteorologists study visuals and a video to examine snow formation and structure. Using the information they learn, scientists follow a procedure to construct a...
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Activity
First Stage

A Charlie Brown Christmas

For Students 2nd - 6th Standards
Charlie Brown may not feel the Christmas spirit this year, but your elementary students can use the season to practice important cross-curricular skills! A set of worksheets and activities based on A Charlie Brown Christmas guide apply...
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Handout
Nosapo

New Year’s Resolution

For Students 4th - 12th Standards
Begin the new year with a two-part activity that asks class members to formulate a resolution and to write about someone or something they are proud of. These statements are then attached to a snowflake and a mandala which they decorate.
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PhysEdGames

Snowflakes

For Students K - 4th
First choose three people to be taggers, and two players to be freers. Give each tagger a white foam ball, and give each freer a yellow ball. The rest of the class runs around the playing area. If a runner is tagged with a white ball,...
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Worksheet
Worksheet Web

Let it Snow

For Teachers 3rd - 4th Standards
After reading an informational text detailing the ins and outs of snowflakes, scholars draw their own special design then work cooperatively to role play a snowman building scenario. 
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Assessment
Barbara Kowal

Winter Vocabulary Quiz

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Asses scholars' vocabulary skills with a winter-themed multiple choice quiz. Learners read a short definition and choose from one of four words it describes. 
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Assessment
Barbara Kowal

Winter Picture Test: Spell and Write

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Scholars prove their vocabulary and spelling proficiency with a winter-themed picture test. Young learners study six pictures accompanied by a variety of letters that must be put in order to spell out the images' name. 
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Worksheet
Barbara Kowal

Winter Wordsearch

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Compliment vocabulary instruction with a winter-themed word search. Scholars search among letters to discover words such as snowflake, icicles, skate, and other winter-related terms! 
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Assessment
Barbara Kowal

Winter Picture Test: Circle the Word

For Students K - 3rd Standards
Challenge scholars to show what they know about winter vocabulary with a multiple choice assessment. Young learners examine a picture and choose one of six words that correctly identify it. 
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Worksheet
Barbara Kowal

Winter Crossword (with Pictures)

For Students K - 3rd Standards
This winter, reinforce vocabulary instruction with a crossword puzzle. Scholars examine picture clues to determine its word and plug them into the puzzle. Vocabulary terms include snowball, skate, cold, and more!
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Learning
Barbara Kowal

Winter Memory

For Students Pre-K - 2nd Standards
Give vocabulary instruction a boost with a memory game in which scholars match winter-related terms to its corresponding picture. Vocabulary words include snowflake, mittens, icicles, and more! 
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Assessment
Barbara Kowal

Winter Picture Test: Fill in the Missing Letters

For Students K - 3rd Standards
What words come to mind when you hear the word winter? Snowflake, cold, and icicles are just a few of the winter words included in picture-test worksheet. Given a partial word, young readers name 10 pictures by filling in the two missing...
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Lesson Plan
Polar Trec

Polar Detectives: Using Ice Core Data to Decode Past Climate Mysteries

For Teachers 6th - 12th Standards
How does examining an ice core tell us about weather? Learners set up and explore fake ice cores made of sugar, salt, and ash to represent historical snowfall and volcanic eruptions. From their setups, scholars determine what caused the...
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Worksheet
PreKinders

Snowflake Pattern Block Mat

For Students Pre-K - 1st Standards
Add a touch of winter flair to geometry practice with a pattern block mat shaped as a snowflake. Preschoolers and kindergartners can work on both shape recognition and pattern identification as they form beautiful snowflakes.
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Printables
Little Giraffes Teaching Ideas

Snowman Snowman

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
What do snowmen eat? Or smell? Read about the senses of a snowman with a cute picture book. Kindergartners cut or fold the pages to create a story about a snowman and what he sees, smells, hears, eats, and feels.
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Lab Resource
University of Chicago

Don't Be Too Flaky

For Students 6th - 8th
Snow, ice, and water are all composed of H2O. Does that mean they all have the same volume? Discover the ways that the densities of these substances determine their volumes, and how they change based on their current states of matter....
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Math Drills

Christmas Cartesian Art Snowflake

For Students 5th - 8th Standards
A festive math worksheet hones graphic skills and keeps the season bright! Young mathematicians join points in the order they were graphed to create a snowflake picture.
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Core Knowledge Foundation

Weather or Not, Seasons Change

For Teachers K - 2nd Standards
Embark on a year long investigation of the seasons with this 10-lesson earth science unit. After being introduced to different types of weather and the tools used to measure it, young scientists perform fun hands-on activities that teach...
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Printables
Teacherfiles

Decorated Primary Writing Paper

For Teachers K - 5th
Spark inspiration with some special stationery. The featured page here comes with a clip art image of a candy cane and colorful wide lines made for young writers. See the materials tab for additional designs. Most of the pages in this...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cold, Clouds, and Snowflakes

For Teachers 4th - 7th
Students explore satellite data and graphing. In this weather data analysis math and science lesson, students analyze NASA satellite data to draw conclusions about geographical areas where precipitation might have happened. Students...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Snowy Similes

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
The class defines similes after creating a KWL chart about them. Groups rotate through a series of stations in which they creatively complete similes. They create a picture booklet that contains similes. However, the booklet topic and...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sizzling Snowflake Crystal

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students investigate the concept of a snowflake and how they are formed in nature. They conduct research in order to find images as models for an art project. Students create a snowflake with Crayola Markers and scissors to cut the shape.