K - 3 Learning Pages:
Resources for Kindergarten to Grade 3 teachers

 List Serve - Web Resources

Science - Seasons - Winter/Snow/Ice
Also see: Winter Fun/Outdoor Activities
Also see: Ice Castles

Abc Teach - Winter Theme - http://www.abcteach.com/directory/theme_units/month_to_month/a_january/wintersnow/  Lots of printables 

Activity Idea Place - Snow - http://123child.com/UBB/showthread.php?t=3092  A huge lists of projects you can do on the topic of snow.

A to Z Winter Theme - http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Winter/ Lots of ideas for everyone. Some purchase items available.

Blizzard Attack - http://weathereye.kgan.com/expert/blizzard/index.html  A web quest for gr. 2 - 3 

Boy Scout Winter Activities -  http://www.inquiry.net/outdoor/winter/activities/index.htm wide-ranging ideas and illustrated guides on fun winter activities, projects and games involving snow, including building a snow fort or snow house, building snow shelters, establishing a snow slide, making snow ice cream, maple sugar making, observing, identifying, and following animal tracks, sledding without sleds, snow golf, winter constellations hikes, winter photography

CanTeach - Winter Poems - http://www.canteach.ca/elementary/songspoems7.html

Child Fun Family Website - http://www.childfun.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=165 It is hard to read because the ideas are cramped in the center column. But copy and paste it into a word document!

Dave's Snowflake Page - http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dstredulinsky/home.html  Over 100 paper snowflake patterns.

DLTK's Winter Activities for Children - http://www.dltk-kids.com/crafts/winter/
This part of the site contains coloring pages, crafts, math pages, and poetry.

Enchanted Learning - Winter - http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/winter/  What I love about these pages are the emergent printable books at the bottom of the page.

Everything Preschool, Winter Theme - http://www.everythingpreschool.com/themes/winter/
Lesson plans, themes, arts and crafts, recipes, songs and games.

First School Snowman Craft - http://www.first-school.ws/activities/seasons/snowman.htm

Gayle's Preschool Winter Theme - http://www.preschoolrainbow.org/preschool-winter.htm Teachers have sent in their best ideas.

Ice and Snow - http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/snow/ Some investigative questions

Idea Box - http://www.theideabox.com/ib.php?web=special&id=wintr   Activities, crafts, music/songs, recipes. These are awesome ideas that just don't seem to end!

Jerrie Cheek's Snow Links - http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/web/snow.html He's got a great listing of sites including research, activities, crafts.

Kindercorner Snowmen - http://www.kinderkorner.com/pics22.html#snowballs You'll have to scroll down a bit to find the ideas here.

Kindergarten Kafe - http://www.kkafe.net/199798/kkb3.html#winter The winter ideas are at the top of the page - includes having a safe snowball fight indoors.

KinderThemes: Let it Snow - http://www.kinderthemes.com/letitsnow.html Integrating ideas

Kids Domain, Winter Fun - http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/winter/
Printable activities for the winter theme.

Kids Snow - Teel Family http://web.archive.org/web/20030401214902/www.teelfamily.com/activities/snow/  Great background information, including the list of Inuit words for snow.

Little Giraffes - Animals in Winter - http://www.littlegiraffes.com/animalsinwinter.html How to create a hibernation experience for your class! Also addresses migration.

Little Giraffes - Igloo - http://www.littlegiraffes.com/igloo.html How to create an igloo using  4 litre milk jugs.

Little Giraffes - Winter Unit - http://www.littlegiraffes.com/winter.html Just when you thought there could be no new ideas, you look here... and wow!

Mrs. McGowan's First Grade Poetry - http://www.mrsmcgowan.com/winter2003/index.html  Excellent posting for a poetry unit!

National Snow and Ice Center - http://www-nsidc.colorado.edu/index.html If you want to go in-depth with your class research or for extending the learning for enrichment, this is a great place!

Paper Snowflake Instructions - http://www.highhopes.com/snowflakes.html 

Pro-Teacher's Winter Ideas - http://www.proteacher.com/160021.shtml several links to resources for teachers including a web quest, crafts, clip art, projects.

Sample Multiple Intelligence Activities Snow Unit - http://www.uaf.edu/olcg/teaching/Snow/mi.snowideas.html  Several ideas under each category

Saskatchewan Education - Mini Winter Games - http://www.saskschools.ca/curr_content/physedpd/MAY11-FINALLY/lesplans/altenvir/pages/5.htm  Excellent ideas for indoor and outdoor

Scholastic's The Magic School Bus: In the Arctic  http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/games/teacher/artic/index.htm
Follow Ms. Frizzle and the gang as they learn about insulation and retaining heat. Includes on-line and printable activities.

School Bell - Winter Links - http://www.theschoolbell.com/Links/Snow/snow.html Snowflakes, poems, activity ideas.

Snowmen Tales - Reading Comprehension - Gr. 2 & up. http://www.manatee.k12.fl.us/sites/elementary/palmasola/rcdowna.htm  pdf files with stories and questions targeting comprehension. 

Snow Thematic Unit - http://midgefrazel.net/snow.html Links to lesson ideas; images of snow; unit links; literature links.

Snow Science Art - http://www.kinderart.com/across/snow.shtml  For those budding scientists who love to do experiments, this is a perfect snow crystal lesson! 

Step by Step: Winter - http://stepbystepcc.com/winter.html Integrating ideas. Also has units developed for Snow/Snowman and Arctic themes (linked on this page).

Teach-nology - Winter Teaching Theme -
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/holidays/winter/  Winter teaching themes for your classroom...coloring sheets, songs, crafts, games, vocabulary building, recipes, lesson plans

Virtual Fieldtrip to Antarctica - http://www.2learn.ca/search/NetSploreView.asp?SID=334
Karen Brown, from EPSB has created this NetSplore. Everything is ready for you to use in your classroom!

Virtual Vine - Mittens Unit - http://www.thevirtualvine.com/mittens.html Using mittens as a way to extend and integrate curriculum.

Virtual Vine - Snowman Unit - http://www.thevirtualvine.com/snowman.html This is absolutely amazing - this page never ends with ideas!

Carol's Favorite - 2005

Whitehorse Elementary: Winter - http://www.yesnet.yk.ca/schools/wes/webquests_themes/winter_lucille_2005/winter_lucille.html Kindergarten unit with KidPix ideas, online game sites, and teacher resource sites

Winter and Snow - http://atozteacherstuff.com/themes/winter.shtml

Winter Celebrations - http://www.theholidayzone.com/winter/arts.htm  Some new arts, games, poetry ideas here - I love the idea of painting with an ice cube.

Winter Fun - http://www.teachersmousepad.com/snow%20fun/Winter%20Fun.htm Wonderful ideas and links

Enjoy Winter - http://www.2learn.ca/mapset/Enjoy/enjoywinter/Winter.html  2learn pages - the place to start!

Winter Weather - http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwatch/winter_storms/index.htm  A brief description of storm and blizzard with links to other sites.

Winter Wonder - http://trackstar.4teachers.org/trackstar/ts/viewTrack.do?number=44762  This site gives you the option of viewing in frames or text format. Great ideas 

Zwolle Elementary: Snow - http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/snow/default.htm Incredible list of links
Zwolle Elementary: Winter Fun - http://www.sabine.k12.la.us/zes/winterfun/default.htm Online games, activities

* List Serve - mailed 01/15/05 Updated January 2007

 

 


 

Webmaster