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Words to Warm the Winter: Characters Count!

For Teachers 5th
Fifth graders take part in a mini-lesson on characterization, discuss roles for Literary Circles and meet for the first true session of their Literary Circles.
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Making a Mountain Out of a Snow Hill: Skiing, Winter Sports, Economics, Business, Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students explore how to select among choices of variables and analyze the cost-benefit ratio of their short and long term planning in a team activity as they consider the planning and operation of a ski slope.
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Farming: Raising Winter Wheat (Lesson 3)

For Teachers K - 2nd
Students identify foods that are made from wheat. They use a line graph to explain measurement. They identify foods from the food groups and explain how temperature, prefcipitation and natural resources affect the growth of wheat.
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Is it Really Winter in Australia? It is June!

For Teachers 8th - 12th
The purpose of this activity is to determine how the location of a place on the Earth (hemisphere) determines what season that place is experiencing relative to the Sun's rays. Day one the students will be introduced to the terms...
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Growing a Winter Garden

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders listen to a planting story as read by their teacher. Using the text, they summarize the events and complete a KWL chart. They point to the vegetable after it was planted in the garden in the story. They practice using new...
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Reindeer Antlers Headband

For Teachers 1st - 5th
In this holiday worksheet, students cut out the antlers and decorate them in order to create a headband under the theme of Christmas.
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Olympic Bobsleigh Word Search Puzzle

For Students 2nd - 3rd
For this Olympic sports word search, students find the words that relate to the Olympic Bobsleigh listed in the word search grid. Students may the word bank for help.
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Snow Man

For Teachers K
Students sit in a circle and practice rolling balls of various sizes to classmates. They construct a paper snowman using various sized circles and then name and label different body parts.
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Olympic Games Snowboard Design: Winter Sports, Snowboarding, Graphic Arts, Global Cultures

For Teachers 6th - 7th
Students gather information about a country and work as a team. They use their knowledge to create a snowboard design that represents the country they pick. They explore locations, languages, flags, and emblems for various countries.
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Story Starter Snowperson Writing

For Students 1st - 2nd
In this writing worksheet, students read a story starter about a talking snowperson and generate the rest of the story on the lines provided. Students color the picture.
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What Do You Like To Make Out of Snow?

For Students K
In this seasonal worksheet, students have a title page and four pictures depicting different snow activities. Students color the four pictures showing the various snow activities.
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Airy Snowflakes

For Teachers K - 1st
Students create snowflakes. In this snowflake lesson, students cut out snowflake shapes from light styrofoam. They hang from the ceiling and watch them move with the air moves. 
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Is it Olympic Time?

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Students investigate the Winter Olympics by studying the geography of the 2010 Vancouver games.  In this competitive sports lesson, students identify the planning and preparation needed to produce an event like the Winter Olympics....
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Olympic Glossary

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students match each vocabulary word to the appropriate sport and create a class glossary that will add to their understanding and also add to their enjoyment of the Winter Olympic Games.
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Language Arts: Ready, Set, Write

For Teachers Pre-K - 2nd
Learn that stories have three parts by paralleling the introduction, the body and the conclusion to the life of an athlete competing in the Winter Games.
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Minnesota Ospreys and Migration

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students explore the route that Minnesota ospreys follow during spring and fall migration. They describe the important ecological characteristics of the places that ospreys pass through during their migration. They determine where...
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The Geography of the Olympics

For Teachers 7th - 12th
Students plot the location of the Winter and Summer Olympics since 1896. Using the maps, they analyze data on where the Olympics have been held and discuss why that location was chosen. They discuss the possiblity of Indianapolis...
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How Buds on Trees Survive the Cold (and Related Mysteries)

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Students solve a science mystery. For this biology lesson plan, students see how the delicate tissues of a tree bud are insulated so that they can survive the winter and learn how to determine the age of a branches and twigs.
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Bits and Pieces!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Learners discuss story elements including characters, setting, problem and solution. They listen to the story, Winter Fun, and identify the story elements. Then they draw pictures and write one sentence for each story element.
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A Picture is worth a Thousand Words, But a Word Can be worth a Thousand Pictures!

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students examine the process of creating mental images, or visualization, as a tool to increase reading comprehension. They practice visualizing while the teacher reads a passage to them by drawing what they hear focusing on including...
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Charting Seasonal Changes

For Teachers 6th - 10th
Learners research the Earth's patterns of rotation and revolution, create a chart and graph of these patterns and use them to explain the causes of night and day and summer and winter.
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Migration Migraine

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students partipate in a demonstration in which they role play animals migrating between breeding and wintering habitats and encountering hazards at each end of the journey.
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U.S. and Global Christmas Traditions

For Teachers 6th
Sixth graders use Internet research to find out about holidays based on the winter solstice, Christmas, and Christmas traditions around the world. They create a PowerPoint presentation about what they learned.
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Teaching Lewis and Clark: Why Fort Clatsop?

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students study the path Lewis and Clark took on their famous trans-American journey. They participate in an online activity that allows them to examine considerations the Expedition made when deciding where to spend the winter of 1805-06.

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