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Brain Breaks to Liven Up the School Day!
Short brain breaks increase engagement and encourage teamwork in elementary, middle school, and even high school classrooms.
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Fun in the Snow
Celebrate the arrival of winter with a reading of Jack Ezra Keats' book The Snowy Day. Engaging children by asking them about their own experiences in the snow, the teacher goes on to read the story aloud before asking the class to draw...
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Weather Words
Weather and the days of the week are the focus on a fun kindergarten activity. Using a word bank with weather words, kids match the pictures of snow, wind, rain, and sun to their correct terms. They then draw a picture for the weather...
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Colors of Winter-Body Parts/Senses
Fun is in the air as learners with special needs engage in sensory-filled activities. They discuss color, snow, cold, winter, and body parts while touching and smelling various objects. They discuss the parts of the body with relation to...
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Color the Snow
Are your teaching in a cold and snowy environment? If so, then try out this fun activity with your class. You mix a variety of colors in large jars to show learners the difference between primary and secondary colors, then let them mix...
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Snowy Similes
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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The Water Cycle: The Water Process
Its time to introduce the water cycle! This presentation describes the water cycle in terms of condensation, evaporation, and precipitation. Five straightforward comprehension questions and easy to understand concept definitions make for...
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The White Stuff: Winter in Canada
Canadian winters, and its residents ways of dealing with winter are the focus of this four-lesson sequence. It them, high schoolers create works of art that reflect their perceptions of winter. They study how Canadian's have incorporated...
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Volcanoes!: The Dangers of Snow and Ice
Students observe a demonstration of how melting snow and ice can contribute to mudflows. They then observea list of continents with the number of snow and ice covered mountains on each continent and discuss. They then label a group of...
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Snow Paintings
Students work with water and food coloring as their medium to paint snow. They mix primary colors to make new colors while they decide on appropriate for their snow paintings as they relate to the curriculum.
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Winter Weather Wonders
Young scholars are taught that precipitation comes in many different forms such as rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail. They research when and why different forms of precipitation fall in temperate climates. Students demonstrate...
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Sizzling Snowflake Crystal
Pupils 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.
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Salty Snow Silhouette
Students research outstanding artwork, from fine art to advertising, that is created with snow scenes silhouettes. They experiment with how to depict various weather conditions, such as snow, when creating a painting. Afterward, they...
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Stimulating Narrative Writing
Students create an art project and write a process paper as a response to literature. In this literature response lesson, students listen to Lynn Ehlert's, Snowballs before decorating a construction paper snowman. They write a...
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How Does the Earth's Energy Budget Relate to Polar Ice?
Students use satellite data to see how radiation budget relates to the ice that is present in the North. In this energy lesson plan students correlate data to see a relationship.
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Science Jeopardy - The Earth Sciences
The earth sciences are the focus for this Jeopardy-style review game. Categories include geology, space, scientific investigation, meteorology, and oceanography. Diagrams and pictures are involved with most of the questions, making this...
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Weather
Intended for use with the very littlest of learners, this presentation provides the opportunity to identify various types of weather. An image of sun, rain, snow, wind, storm, and clouds are shown directly under their associated word....
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Slip-Sliding Away... On the Way to School
Students research snow removal in their community. They survey students to find out if they are having problems with the walks on their way to school and how bad the problem is. Next, they organize the findings to present in class....
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Breaking News English: snow
In this snow activity, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and more...
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Ice Cream
Students create ice cream in a bag and snow ice cream to study the effects of freezing on foods. In this ice cream activity, students understand the effects of freezing on cells.
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Compare and Contrast
Students learn about similarities and differences between different types of weather patterns. For this weather lesson, students read Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs and Weather. Students create a word search puzzle, complete a Venn...
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Winter Spelling
In this spelling the word "snow" worksheet, students apply the clues to determine the word snow to color and write the letters s, n, o, and w. Students complete 8 answers.
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Weather "Whys" : Introduction to Weather
Students discuss weather forecasts and different types of weather. In this weather lesson, students observe the weather and learn a weather song. They listen to a story and see weather measurement tools.
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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.