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Plan winter learning around snow, polar animals, reading and classroom routines. Find themed lesson sequences and related activities that support a winter unit.

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Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template teaching resource preview
Snow & winter weather

Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template

Give preschool/kindergarten educators a pre-planned, week-long, winter-themed lesson plan covering multiple learning centers (circle time, movement, art, science, language/literacy, dramatic play, math, construction, enrichment) for Monday through Friday.

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Microsoft Word
Level
Pre-K–K
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Back-to-School Icebreakers After Winter Break (for Elementary School) teaching resource preview
Returning from break

Back-to-School Icebreakers After Winter Break (for Elementary School)

A complete 90-minute SEL (social-emotional learning) lesson plan to help elementary students reconnect after winter break, covering learning objectives, CASEL-framework standards alignment, materials list, preparation steps, and a full lesson procedure including a Winter Break BINGO icebreaker activity, differentiation notes, teacher reflection prompts,…

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PDF
Level
1–5
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Arctic Animals Writing Project teaching resource preview
Polar animalsReading & writing

Arctic Animals Writing Project

A 10+ day lesson-plan unit (Siri Latina) guiding students through writing a 5-paragraph informative/explanatory research paper about an Arctic animal, aligned to CCSS W.2.2/W.3.2/W.4.2.

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PDF
Level
2–4
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Winter Writing Prompts: Sno-Wonderful teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

Winter Writing Prompts: Sno-Wonderful

Teach the four major writing genres (Narrative, Persuasive, Descriptive, Expository) to upper elementary/middle school and special education students through winter-themed writing tasks, posters, and task cards, including the full writing process from pre-writing through final draft.

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PDF
Level
6–8
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"The Snowy Day" | Picture Book Study teaching resource preview
Snow & winter weatherReading & writing

"The Snowy Day" | Picture Book Study

A picture book study companion to Ezra Jack Keats's The Snowy Day, providing discussion questions, comprehension and vocabulary printables, crafts/activities, a nonfiction snowflake mini-passage, and hands-on cut-and-glue projects tied to the story's winter theme.

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PDF
Level
Pre-K–1
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Snowflake Unit Study - Wilson Bentley PowerPoint BUNDLE teaching resource preview
Snow & winter weather

Snowflake Unit Study - Wilson Bentley PowerPoint BUNDLE

A multi-lesson PowerPoint/PDF unit study bundle on snowflakes and pioneering snowflake photographer Wilson Bentley, covering meteorology/snow-crystal science, biography, and geometry (snowflake symmetry), for a holiday/winter-season cross-curricular study.

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Microsoft PowerPoint
Level
4–8
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STEM Challenges and STEM Activities for Winter teaching resource preview
Snow & winter weather

STEM Challenges and STEM Activities for Winter

A STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) design-process resource for early-years/young students, providing lesson plans, design-process posters, planning sheets and challenge cards organized around a January/winter theme.

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PDF
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Pre-K
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Animals in Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template teaching resource preview
Polar animals

Animals in Winter Week-Long Lesson Plan Template

A week-long (Monday-Friday) pre-K/kindergarten lesson plan template/grid organizing daily circle time, movement, art, science, language/literacy, dramatic play, math, construction, and enrichment activities around the theme of animals in winter.

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Microsoft Word
Level
Pre-K–K
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Add Falling Snow Photoshop Activity teaching resource preview

Add Falling Snow Photoshop Activity

Students will work with digital tools in the Add Falling Snow Photoshop Activity . Students will take an ordinary wintery shot and add falling snow to it. Step by step directions are included.

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Multiple File Types
Level
7–10
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BIRDS IN WINTER Gr. 3-5 teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

BIRDS IN WINTER Gr. 3-5

BIRDS IN WINTER Gr. 3-5: A Comprehensive Teaching Resource BIRDS IN WINTER Gr. 3-5 is an engaging educational unit aiming to introduce students in grades 3 through 5 to the fascinating world of Science and Zoology, focusing on winter…

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PDF
Level
3–4
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Christmas Narrative Writing Guide! teaching resource preview
Reading & writing

Christmas Narrative Writing Guide!

Christmas Narrative Writing Guide! Ideal for educators from both public schools and home schools, this Christmas Narrative Writing Guide is a beneficial teaching resource apt for the holiday season.

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PDF
Level
5–12
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